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Episode 156 -- Celebratory Activism
rabble_radio_episode_156_-_celebratory_activism.mp3Please support our coverage of democratic movements and become a monthly supporter of rabble.ca. It's summer time and it's time to have some fun. But...
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Feminist summer camp in Saskatoon
trr_rpn_june30-jul4_2014_feminist_summer_camp.mp3On this week's Talking Radical Radio, Tanya Andrusieczko talks about her process of dreaming up the first feminist summer camp in Saskatoon, and then...
View ArticleDealing with Edmonton's misogyny problem
In April 2014, the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives named Edmonton the worst Canadian city to be a woman. Among its numerous indicators, the study specifically names Edmonton's higher than...
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Join Niki Ashton for the Women's Forum 2014
Wednesday, October 29, 2014 The Women's Forum 2014 will be hosted tomorrow October 30. Can't make it? No problem! Join us online! Friends,This Thursday October 30, I will host the third annual Women's...
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Join the Women's Forum 2014 online today!
Can't make it to the Women's Forum 2014 today? No problem! Join us online.Join the discussion! The 2014 Women's Forum is live on rabble.ca all day October 30
View ArticleIn business, as in politics, women's voices matter
I recently attended a talk by the Right Honourable Kim Campbell, Canada's first and only woman Prime Minister. The talk was called, "Women's Voices: What difference do they make?" It was about women's...
View ArticleVancouver field hockey players forced to wear skirts for (at least) another year
If you'd have told me when I was 12 and writing my first speeches about equality for my local Rotary Club that my first real experience of discrimination would be at the hands of a field hockey league,...
View ArticleIn defence of the 'F' word: Why we need feminism now more than ever
I started blogging a few months ago because I'd had enough of the smear campaign against feminism that has been underway for many years. The #WomenAgainstFeminism phenomenon on Tumblr, wherein women...
View ArticleCyber-misogyny: The new frontier for hate
On August 3, 2013, 14-year-old Hannah Smith hanged herself in her bedroom. In the weeks leading up to her death, Hannah was subjected to cruel taunts and insults about her weight and a family death on...
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Sexualized violence on our campuses
halifax_panel_jan_9_2015.mp3When posts in a Facebook group joking about having "hate-sex" and chloroforming women were made public, the anonymous members of "Class of DDS 2015 Gentlemen" were instantly...
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How do we address sexual violence at Canadian universities?
On January 9, the Centre for Ethics in Public Affairs responded to the developing crisis at the Dalhousie Dental School with a panel discussion about violence on Canadian campuses.Sexualized violence...
View ArticleMale field hockey players trade in shorts for sexy skirts
It might surprise you to learn that in the progressive city of Vancouver there remains a recreational athletic league that prohibits women from wearing shorts. The league is the Vancouver Women's Field...
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Textile artists reclaim narrative through 'Strange Material'
February 26, 2015Like this article? Chip in to keep stories like these coming. From old Blockbuster video receipts to embroidered pillows to crocheted fabric squares, Strange Material: Storytelling...
View Article'We don't hire girls in the newsroom': Reflections on 50 years of reporting...
It is traditional on International Women's Day to celebrate the advances we have made as women. As I began my on-again off-again career as a journalist in the 1960s, it is easy to look back and see...
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Francine Pelletier: 'Violence against women is the Western world's dirty...
Tuesday, March 31, 2015 Award-winning journalist Francine Pelletier spoke to some 200 people at Concordia University on what it takes for women to be heard, 25 years after the Montreal Massacre at...
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Why so few federal election debates on women's issues?
Thursday, September 3, 2015 Political parties' reticence (or refusal, as the case may be) to participate in women's issues debates is part of a decades-old neoliberal chill put on women's advocacy work...
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Why are political parties refusing to participate in women's issues debates?
The Up For Debate campaign recently announced that a federal leadership debate on women's issues is not likely to take place this election cycle/Why so few federal election debates on women's issues?
View Article'We are U of T, we fight against misogyny'
'We are U of T, we fight against misogyny' In response to an anonymous blog post threatening violence against women in the Departments of Sociology and Women's Studies at U of T, a mass march reclaimed...
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Restoring disturbed nature: Two debut books of Canadian poetry
September 17, 2015Like this article? rabble is reader-supported journalism. Chip in to keep stories like these coming. This double review of "Infinite Citizen of the Shaking Tent" and "A New Index for...
View ArticleCelebrating 25 years of Women of Steel
Celebrating 25 years of Women of Steel Women's activism and involvement in the union had begun earlier, particularly during the feminist wave of the 1970s and 1980s.
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