http://www.cbc.ca/news/canadavotes/story/2008/09/12/22minutes-hall-harper.htmlRead more... )

The parent company of the Snyders pharmacy that denied birth control to women in Montana is Canadian. I'm firing off an email to the owners, letting them know that I'll be boycotting their pharmacies until they require their pharmacists to fill all legal prescriptions ( Read more... )

This just makes me sick.

Is it any fucking wonder that sexual assault victims are so leary (leery?) of reporting it? Good gods.

I have a good long thought process about this, but I can't seem to bring any of it into coherent writing. Suffice it to say, there's no justice for women. Never has been, won't be in my lifetime. GAH.

The Canadian Wheat Board (CWB) has a monopoly on wheat and barley in Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba. The big grain buyers pushed the government to dismantle the monopoly on barley (and wheat, but that's not happening. yet) and of course, they did. They're Conservative, big business cocksuckers. So they put it to a vote among the farmers, and of ( Read more... )

One of Canada's great feminists died. Doris Anderson was an amazing woman. Born in Alberta in 1921, raised until she was 8 by only her mother, and then by both her parents, she went to Teachers College, and then taught until she could put herself through University. She became a journalist. She worked her way up through the ranks of Chatelaine ( Read more... )

"The US is a melting pot. Canada is a Lite Brite."

(seen on a message board at wondercafe.ca)

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Happy Canada Day to all my fellow Canadians. I got thinking about Canada Day, patriotism, and national anthems this morning, and I have a few things running through my head that I"m going to try to get down coherently. Don't expect much ( Read more... )