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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 […]
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 […]
“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, […]
Golden Girl Finance featured a Human Rights Watch report on its Friday Stocktail this week that reveals, “tobacco farms across the US are using children as young as age 7 to assist in tobacco harvesting, exposing them to nicotine, pesticides and extreme heat.” That same Friday Stocktail also filled YWG in on the latest GMO legislation in the U.S., […]
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 […]
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