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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 […]
The NRA has identified women has its potential growth demographic. Putting women squarely in their sights, the truculent US lobby group launched a new website, NRA Women presented by Smith & Wesson at its convention last week. The NRA Women’s mission is to “expose the public to the female face of the NRA – focusing […]
Non-profit organization, Colalife, had a great idea to use the distribution network of CocaCola to get much-needed medicines to the people who need them. “You can buy a Coca-Cola virtually anywhere in developing countries,” says the Colalife webite, but in these same places, 1 in 9 children die before their 5th birthday from simple preventable […]
Commander Chris Hadfield wasn’t the only one tearing up the Internet this past week. American author, David Foster Wallace’s 2005 commencement address to Kenyon College, a private liberal arts college in Ohio has received 4.5 million views since an abridged version was posted on May 6, 2013, five years after Foster Wallace’s death from suicide […]
Follow Ernestine’s Women’s Shelter on Twitter at @ErnestinesWS and find out about cool things like this — the first ever campaign on violence against women in Saudi Arabia The “No More Abuse” campaign is sponsored by the nonprofit King Khalid Foundation. Memac Ogilvy, Riyadh created the campaign.
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 […]
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
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 […]
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