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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Welcome to The Money Edition of Your Working Girl. This week it’s all about money — who has it, who doesn’t, how to get some and how to show it. Your Working Girl never thought, with all due respect to the profession, that accountants would be a necessary part of the revolution. Today she […]
You don’t have to dig too deep — part two. The ties that bind. International NGOs and the Canadian mining industry. Here a listing of Canadian NGOsand the mining companies that acknowledged as a “Donor”, “Alliance Partner”, “Major Corporate Sponsor” on their website. In some cases such as Plan Canada, WUSC, World Vision (for which […]
Prologue: As the freezing rain beat against the windows of her 15th floor walk-up, Your Working Girl was thinking on the brouhaha surrounding World Vision, Plan Canada, World University Services of Canada and their $7.7 million deal with Barrick Gold, IAM GOLD, Rio Tinto and CIDA (heaven rest its soul). For a sector that has […]
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