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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 […]
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 […]
“Why do they bother to have the elections at all,” voters once observed when they looked at their newspapers the morning after a vote. Those were the days when election polling was uncannily accurate. Was an election really necessary or would a sample size of 1,125 do the trick? Now, after another ‘shocking’ election result, […]
That Farley Mowat’s death and a beached whale in Newfoundland made national headlines at the same time last week caused Your Working Girl to sit up and take notice. She admits to being in a bit of a mood lately. Living in a city governed by a petulant junkie mayor, watching the most progressive provincial budget […]
The 2014 Academy Awards will probably be best remembered for the selfie taken by Bradley Cooper with host Ellen Degeneres, Brange, Jennifer, Meryl, Jared, Cate and the beautiful Lupita Nyong’o. It was the selfie that crashed Twitter™, a picture re-tweeted more than three million times. Holy smokes. According to website digitaltrend.com, Oscars™ sponsor Samsung, ever […]
For the last 10 days, Neil Young has waged a blistering attack on the Alberta oilsands development. It’s a thrashing that’s left the Canadian oil industry and the governments that support it sputtering with indignation. The Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers played the snooty card. “Mr. Young may represent that rock stars don’t need oil, […]
Much has happened in 2013 and lots of it is a bit quirky. Here are a few things Your Working Girl would like to take note of. The Grant Officer of the Year Award John Cook – Gawker.com For not making the easy call. Cook researched well-deserving community groups to find a home for the […]
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