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The issue that’s given rise to the most scorn among my readers since the Ghomeshi scandal broke a week ago was my initial posit that Jian Ghomeshi’s being a man of colour and a Muslim might have played a role in the way the CBC disposed of him. The response I got to that suggestion was that […]
As the line of women coming forward disclosing abuse at the hands of Jian Ghomeshi gets longer and less anonymous, I have three thoughts to share with you today. The women’s stories are troubling in the extreme but I will make the same assertion I made yesterday—that the media’s, social and otherwise, sensational focus is […]
So far this week, Elizabeth May, leader of Canada’s Green Party, apologized for supporting Jian Ghomeshi, apparently in response to the threat that ‘no woman in Canada would vote for her.’ Elizabeth May regarding Jian Ghomeshi | Green Party of Canada https://t.co/WELl3gc1e9 #GPC #cdnpoli — Elizabeth May (@ElizabethMay) October 27, 2014 Judy Rebick, publisher of […]
Finally, something to get the Ford family off the front page! CBC Radio’s firing of Jian Ghomeshi on Sunday was pretty shocking. Let’s cue up the Q media panel to see what they’ve had to say about their host’s scandal: Jonathan Kay (National Post), Judy Rebick (rabble.ca) and John Cruikshank (Toronto Star) The story began […]
From the Globe and Mail: “A poll Friday of 1,228 people by Forum Research for the Toronto Star had Mr. Tory at 41 per cent, Mr. Ford at 34 per cent and Ms. Chow at 19 per cent. A poll the same day of 1,054 people by Mainstreet Technologies put Mr. Tory at 45 per […]
The positive collateral in the celebrity nude-photo-hacking scandal was the increasingly articulate (though not without irony, Your Working Girl admits) invasion of privacy response mounted by some activists, news agencies and media watchers. They expressed the idea that a woman—celebrity or otherwise—should be able to take whatever pictures she wants in the privacy of her […]
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 […]
It’s baseball season … hooray … and aside from not having her confidence buoyed by the recent slump of the Toronto Blue Jays, Your Working Girl is having a great time watching as much baseball as she can, including as many Detroit Tigers games as her increasingly solitary time allows. The team is a joy […]
After 15 years of allowing food producers to put a distinguishing red check mark on foods it deemed nutritionally beneficial, the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada announced this week it will shutter the Health Check™ Program. Your Working Girl anticipates we will be a healthier nation for it. Heart and Stroke bills Health Check as […]
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