Look who’s talking

Your Working Girl wants to take a peek stateside this week to see how her sisters are fairing in the land of the free.  Since the Republican gains in the mid-term elections in 2010, individual states have been cutting funding to women’s clinics, forcing women to watch ultrasounds of prior to having an abortion and […]

Gawker does it again

John Cook, editor of gawker.com has gone and done it again. And for that, Mr Cook is Your Working Girl’s leading nominee for two illustrious awards. Your Working Girl thinks her Gentle Readers remember the gentleman.  He’s the fellow who broke the story about sketchy Toronto mayor, Rob Ford, smoking crack cocaine in a video.  […]

“If 1000 monkeys typed for 100 years, one would pen Othello.”

Not 10 minutes ago, Your Working Girl received a phone call at home from one of Canada’s most well known polling companies.  You hear this company quoted frequently, making confident pronouncements on the vox populi.  The call was an automated survey on the issue of healthcare.  And it tantalizingly held out the possibility of winning […]

Happy Canada Day. Condolences on Memorial Day.

It will not come as a surprise to anyone who sees and hears TV or radio that the island of Newfoundland and a chunk of the mainland, Labrador, is in a time zone of its own — Newfoundland Standard Time.  The island is three and a half hours from Coordinated Universal Time (CTU) or what […]

Guest Blog: Don’t Rain on My Parade

To celebrate the US Supreme Court’s rejection of the Defense Against Marriage Act, to honour Your Working Girl’s friends and relations of the gay, lesbian, bi-sexual and transgendered persuasion, and to mark the occasion of Pride celebrations in Toronto this week, she has invited her dear friend and artist, Israel Vazquez, to be her first ever […]

Do you believe it?

Princess Margaret Hospital is in the throes of a $1 billion fundraising campaign called Believe It, an increasingly ironic moniker in light of recent events. On June 18th in Toronto, it held a self-described “media event” to announce a “major breakthrough” in the development of “sharpshooter” cancer drugs.  (Your Working Girl notices the language of […]

“Charity creates a multitude of sins”

Your Working Girl’s dear friend Oscar Wilde knew a thing or two about sin and, perhaps unpredictably, quite a bit about charity.  For anyone involved in the fundraising world, the early reports of what’s going down with the Grace Foundation in St. John, New Brunswick could make you a bit queasy. A board member of the Grace […]

Sunnybrook Hospital’s Fundraising Campaign Magazine Features Danzig Street ‘Mass Shooting’

Your Working Girl’s daily newspaper announced its arrival with a thud at approximately 6:00 am yesterday, a miracle repeated at her door six times a week.   It was a day when the newspaper was made heavy with insert; this time a 64-page magazine courtesy of Sunnybrook Hospital. Your Working Girl sighed as she reflexively thumbed […]

I choose Gawker

Your Working Girl has fallen gracefully to her dainty knees as she beseechingly asks what in the name of Holy Mary, Mother of God do our elected politicians have in store to punish us with this day.   To get up in the morning this week is to have a case of news-induced vertigo descend as […]

“Armed and fabulous” women

The NRA has identified women has its potential growth demographic.  Putting women squarely in their sights, the truculent US lobby group launched a new website, NRA Women presented by Smith & Wesson at its convention last week. The NRA Women’s mission is to “expose the public to the female face of the NRA – focusing […]