Women's Groups Face Funding Cuts

[boodee]

Women's groups face funding cuts

Comments

[kali_kali]

We don't need most of those organizations using mass amounts of public funding like that.

Funding for women's distress centres, sure. But activist groups like that? No. Those should be funded like donations just like any other activist group.

[rogula]

Here here.

[kali_kali]

Men suffer sexism as well now which isn't noticed at all.

Oh, it is, but no one says anything because it isn't politically correct. Only women can be discriminated against, remember?

Sure, women may on average get paid less than men, but that is a vestige of old that is still residually there, but will be gone soon I'm sure. But in the new young generations, treatment of men and women is changing rapidly. I know in schools, both when I was in elementary/secondary school and in schools now, it is the girls who are fawned over and treated better and encouraged and favoured by teachers and the educational system in general, much to the detriment of boys.

Why can't everyone just be treated equally as human beings?

[lifeisacabaret]

I want to register my disgust, that's all. canpolitik isn't the place to discuss women's issues, so I will leave it at that.

[lifeisacabaret]

I didn't mean that it is OT, I meant that this community is pretty much out to lunch on women's issues and I am just not into getting into drawn out discussions that get nowhere.

[lifeisacabaret]

Could you provide a link to this article please?

[boodee]

http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&call_pageid=971358637177&c=Article&cid=1158790225532

[warrioreowyn]

If the Cons want to be spending less money, or at least spending more responsibly, some things will have to be cut. On my list of things that need funding, special interest groups are about 1000th, if they're on there at all. That goes double for special interest groups that are barely needed any more. Hello? You've WON. The war's over, so stop complaining you aren't getting enough arms to fight it.

[rogula]

They could save a ton, and do the country a HUGE favour and AXE all funding of the CBC and CRTC.

[warrioreowyn]

I've never seen the CBC as being partisan; I read the website pretty much every day, and it's certain never shy of criticizing government actions. I think it's useful to have a public television station - it makes it possible for there to be news based at least partially on what the public ought to know, rather than on whatever's sensationalist and sells.

[ringzero]

Sweet. Next on the chopping block are Business Development Corporations, I hope! *fingers crossed*