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Your Working Girl’s Friday blog detailed how women are underrepresented in media sourcing in the US, specifically in the debate around contraception and abortion – 87% of the quotes in print media election stories were attributed to men and 84% on the television news were men. Her Gentle Readers, of whom she is extremely fond, […]
Your Working Girl is not sure if you’ve been kept in the loop on the brouhaha with the New Brunswick foundation asking Justin Trudeau for a refund on his speaking fee, but she didn’t want the weekend to close without sharing. Chairperson, Ian Webster confirmed a couple of weeks ago that the charity was no […]
Your Working Girl wants to take a peek stateside this week to see how her sisters are fairing in the land of the free. Since the Republican gains in the mid-term elections in 2010, individual states have been cutting funding to women’s clinics, forcing women to watch ultrasounds of prior to having an abortion and […]
John Cook, editor of gawker.com has gone and done it again. And for that, Mr Cook is Your Working Girl’s leading nominee for two illustrious awards. Your Working Girl thinks her Gentle Readers remember the gentleman. He’s the fellow who broke the story about sketchy Toronto mayor, Rob Ford, smoking crack cocaine in a video. […]
Not 10 minutes ago, Your Working Girl received a phone call at home from one of Canada’s most well known polling companies. You hear this company quoted frequently, making confident pronouncements on the vox populi. The call was an automated survey on the issue of healthcare. And it tantalizingly held out the possibility of winning […]
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 […]
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 dear friend Oscar Wilde knew a thing or two about sin and, perhaps unpredictably, quite a bit about charity. For anyone involved in the fundraising world, the early reports of what’s going down with the Grace Foundation in St. John, New Brunswick could make you a bit queasy. A board member of the Grace […]
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 […]
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