As you might know, there’s very little good television between Christmas and New Year’s. Those of us who spend quiet holidays are left to surf the channels or stream. This year I had not seen A&E’s new series The Untold Story. If I had noticed it through the year, I would have likely assumed it …
Category Archives: womens rights
16 Days of Activism: Montreal Massacre
It was December 6, 1989. It was the first time I felt the wrath of antifeminism when I learned of what later became known as the Montreal Massacre. A very sick man, whose name I will not glorify, entered École Polytechnique with mass murder as his intent. The school, associated with Université de Montréal, ranks …
Baby It’s Cold Outside Controversy – Let It Go
By now you may have heard of the controversy over John Legend’s new version of ‘Baby It’s Cold Outside’. You may not know, however, that last year CBC and other radio stations in Canada as well as some U.S. stations actually banned the original song citing the uproar over its interpretation as a precursor to …
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Shedding Light on a Very Dark Topic – Part 2
October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month in the United States. It’s November in Canada. I don’t know why the difference, but it lends itself to me writing about it for the next few weeks. In the U.S. statistics say that three out of four people know someone who is or has been a victim of …
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Shedding Light on a Very Dark Topic – Part One
Now known as the Toronto Van Attack, where on April 23, 2018, a vile man purposefully drove a rented van into the sidewalks of Yonge Street in Greater Toronto killing 10 people is in the news again because the Toronto Police have released video of the man’s interrogation interview. CBC only released small portions of …
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Margaret Atwood Says It’s Time to Bother
Canadian poet and author of fiction, children’s fiction and best-selling novels, Margaret Atwood is most recently best known as the creator of The Handmaid’s Tale – original book published in 1983 and transformed in the popular Hulu TV series (2017 – present) of the same name. She is deeply involved in the development of the …
Hindsight: My Journey 