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Your Working Girl noticed the re-tweet from Evan Hadfield early in the morning of May 13th. As she’s mentioned on previous occasions in this space, the work of Commander Hadfield has held her in thrall since he’s been sending his brilliant tweets from the ISS. He looked like he was having such a good time […]
Last week, a letter to Dan Savage in NOW magazine caught Your Working Girl’s eye. (Believe her when she tells you her eye catches a great many sorts of things.) The letter to Mr. Savage, an internationally syndicated sex columnist and gay rights activist, was from a ‘monagamish’ bi-sexual couple who ‘fool around’ with similarly […]
From Your Working Girl’s Let’s Keep This All Social Media Buzz In Perspective Department, UNICEF Sweden released a compelling ad in April to bring the Facebook universe back to reality. It turns out that ‘liking’ something on Facebook doesn’t, in and of itself, do much at all. Brandchannel makes the point the that “while brands […]
Happy International Workers’ Day! Happy May Day! Today is the day when much of the world celebrates their workers. Today Your Working Girl would like to take the opportunity to honour a particularly hard worker of her acquaintance — her own dear father. Parents these days are judged on a range of criteria and some […]
To kick of the soundtrack of Your Working Girl’s Money Edition, here’s Liza and Joel to set the tone. Sing in the shower if you like it. Money Liza Minelli and Joel Grey
The Flying Circus sets the right note. Your Working Girl can’t remember a time when she didn’t know this song. The Money Song by Monty Python
…. to pay the bills I have to pay / Ain’t it sad. ABBA sings it like no one else. Money, Money, Money by Abba
Every year in Toronto and cities across the country, departments of public health have to fight for their budgets. In Toronto, the fight was ugly last year. The mayor wanted no increase. Toronto Public Health said delivery of student nutrition programs necessitated an increase. The budget passed, but not without a fight. Next year is […]
The shortest cut to getting a piece of the money that’s floating around the charitable sector for your own personal self is to obtain your CFRE® — the Certified Fund Raising Executive certificate, a fundraising certification program run by the industry self-regulator, the Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP). The test is tough, made up of […]
Deep down, Your Working Girl’s populist side believes that hospitals, universities and associated government-funded buildings should be called “The People’s Cardiac Centre” or “The People’s Breast Cancer Laboratory”, “The People’s Law Library” and so on. She does, however, acknowledge it has the tinge of the Maoist about it and she doesn’t want to throw her […]
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