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International Women's Day 9 Mar 2011 | 01:27 pm
In the West, International Women’s Day doesn’t mean much any more. It’s little more than a marketing opportunity for businesses, or an excuse for the last remnants of women’s grievance groups to keep ...
Issues Related to the High Number of Murdered and Missing Women in Canada 7 Feb 2011 | 04:16 pm
Isn't that interesting? I went looking online for a copy of the report by the Coordinating Committee of Senior Officials Missing Women Working Group - "Issues Related to the High Number of Murdered a...
Lee-Ann Chyoweh-Pawis - Still Missing? 7 Feb 2011 | 10:04 am
Awhile ago, on Facebook, I joined a group called Red Circle Alert, which was formed by (Red Power United - Native Rights Movement) to try and help Native Families and Communities find Missing Friends ...
Global Lockdown: Race, Gender, and the Prison-Industrial Complex 6 Feb 2011 | 09:03 am
Sudbury, Julia. Global Lockdown: Race, Gender, and the Prison-Industrial Complex. London: Routledge, 2005. Print. This is the book that I have been reading this week. I finished the last few chapters...
Memories of G20 29 Dec 2010 | 05:29 pm
Interesting.... CTV news is on and I happened to catch a bit re: what Canadians will remember about the G20 debacle earlier this year.... According to CTV, apparently, all we are (supposed to?) remem...
Theft of Indian land ... simply not true 19 Dec 2010 | 02:15 am
...or is it? It all depends on whose version of events you want to go with. This week, a guest editorial in the Midnorth Monitor shared his particular (white, Eurocentric, male) version of the Robinso...
Federal Government Approves MacKenzie Pipeline 17 Dec 2010 | 03:36 pm
Money, money, money....always money... in a neoliberal world :( I stopped by Google news this evening and was distressed to read that Canada's Federal government has approved the MacKenzie pipeline -...
Canadian Outrage 14 Dec 2010 | 01:48 pm
A couple of weeks ago, in one of my classes, we watched a film called American Outrage, about the Dann sisters, elderly Shoshone women whose animals got in the way of a gold mine. The US government su...
Thinking about Canadian Fictions 19 Oct 2010 | 04:07 am
So ...I haven't been doing much with this blog lately (how's that for understatement!?) but I did have a thought about it the other day. I haven't been blogging here because I am so swamped with my s...
Nora Roberts The Search 7 Jul 2010 | 01:10 pm
I (almost) feel guilty. When I was offered a copy of Nora Roberts' latest (well - I think it's her latest; that woman is SO prolific, sometimes it's hard to tell) I jumped at the opportunity to read ...
