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World Film Festival review: Tradition hinders young women in Tall As The...

Tall as the Baobab Tree was made in Senegal, with Senegalese actors and an American director. You could look at it as a plea for “universal health care” though that probably wasn’t what director Jeremy...

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LGBT champions can be great women's rights advocates, too

Mission statement: To secure equal civil rights for women all over the world. I’ve seen some articles on the web recently about life in various U.S. states after the battle for same-sex marriage has...

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Nudists/Naturists: Go Topless Day plans?

Yes, the title of this blog is SEO-friendly, not click bait (which I will talk about in another post). It is targeting my many nudism/naturism readers and asking: Do you plan to show your support for...

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Go Topless: Women appeal to Justin Trudeau, Thomas Mulcair

Women from the Raelian Church in Canada are calling on federal Liberal leader Justin Trudeau and NDP leader Thomas Mulcair to support the campaign to give women — all women — the same rights men have...

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Montreal Go Topless Day event: Why it is being held

Many women and supporters will demonstrate around the world today, including in Montreal, in support of top freedom for women — the freedom to be topless in public situations where men are allowed to...

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Montreal Go Topless event: A report on Sunday's demonstration

Why should the men in this picture be allowed to be topless in public but not the women? In fact, the women in this picture were allowed to be topless in public Sunday during the demonstration at...

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Montreal Go Topless event draws a lot of interest (with video)

Does it surprise anyone that my report on Sunday’s Montreal Go Topless event drew many readers — more than 7,300 here alone, a lot for a little blog like this one, which averages between 500 and 1,200...

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Letters: Violence against women is reprehensible

I find myself reflecting frequently these days on the message my own father, nearing the end of his days, provided his five sons on the topic of the treatment of women. My dad is a Second World War...

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Letters: 'Our daughters are not objects for gratification'

Re: “Enough is enough” (Opinion, Jan. 28)   I, like opinion-writer Beverly Akerman, am appalled by the endless supply of sexism that permeates our society and agree that the Eugenie Bouchard “twirl” is...

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Editorial: Sexual violence is a scourge against women

The gang rape and brutal beating of 23-year-old medical student Jyoti Singh aboard a bus in Delhi in 2012 was a gruesome crime that shocked many around the world. The death of Singh, who succumbed to...

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Editorial: Too many unintended consequences for women's health

A decade ago, the McGill Reproductive Centre announced the birth of an 8-lb. baby boy — the first child in Canada born from a frozen egg through a revolutionary technique pioneered at the clinic. There...

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Letter: Handle hecklers with a sharp word and a dignified retreat

Re: “When did we start going all shock-horror-outrage on heckling?” (Christie Blatchford, May 22) Christie Blatchford is completely right: a kiss (even an unwanted one) is just a kiss, a sigh (even one...

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Editorial: The legacy of Claire Kirkland-Casgrain

Claire Kirkland-Casgrain was a woman of firsts in Quebec: the first woman MNA, the first to hold a cabinet post, the first to sit as acting premier, the first to be named judge. Now, another first:...

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Claire Kirkland-Casgrain funeral: Quebec says goodbye to a pioneer

Fittingly for a pioneer, it was a first. At the first national funeral for a Quebec woman, Claire Kirkland-Casgrain was remembered as a trailblazer for women. She was the first woman elected to...

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Don Macpherson: Quota for female candidates? No thanks, say young Quebec...

To the youth wing of Quebec’s governing Liberal party, quotas aren’t for everybody. The young Liberals themselves owe their influence in party affairs to a quota unique in Quebec politics. The Liberal...

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Editorial: Iran's imprisonment of Homa Hoodfar is outrageous

Friends and colleagues of imprisoned Montreal academic Homa Hoodfar kicked off the new school year by renewing their urgent pleas for Iran to release her. They rightly fear continued detention could be...

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Montrealer stages topless protest at Trump's polling station

Neda Topaloski said Donald Trump has made misogynist remarks throughout the U.S. electoral campaign, so she wanted to protest against him on voting day using her body. The 30-year-old Montrealer...

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