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When comedian and CBC host, Rick Mercer, stepped out onto the stage of the Giller Awards Gala on November 10th, having replaced Jian Ghomeshi as host, everyone wondered if, and how, he would bring up the Ghomeshi scandal. The hotel ballroom was a beautifully decorated CBC set. The tables were laid with jaunty CBC-themed red […]
(Lewis Hamilton hugging his girlfriend Nicole Scherzinger after the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix) (November 27, 2014) I am one of the first people to get it. I understand completely. Being a Formula 1 race fan is a nerdy-slash-incomprehensible pastime with a dash of “trying too hard” if you’re a woman, which, in this case, applies—the […]
Since the World Series ended one week ago yesterday, things haven’t been the same. The Republicans just won a majority in the U.S. Senate, guaranteeing, at the very least, political paralysis in the world’s biggest economy. On Sunday, our Armed Forces dropped two laser-guided GBU-12, 500-pound bombs “in the vicinity of Fallujah.” The time change means it’s […]
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’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 […]
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