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The BC disadvantage for women
Women in BC may well decide who becomes the next premier. According to a recent Ipsos Reid poll, most are not inclined to support Christie…
Plan for $10 a day child care striking a chord with British Columbians
More than thirty years ago, the women’s movement put child care on the public agenda. And while there have been important successes along the way,…
A Living Wage As a Human Right
Download 432.43 KB18 pages In Canada, many workers do not earn a living wage because of discrimination. Women workers and those who are racialized, immigrant,…
Abortion and Women’s Rights
Hennessy’s Index: A number is never just a number Hennessy’s Index is a monthly listing of numbers, written by the CCPA’s Trish Hennessy, about Canada…
Bringing Up Baby
How modern motherhood undermines the status of women Book Review: The Conflict: How Modern Motherhood Undermines the Status of Women; by Elisabeth Badinter, Metropolitan Books/Holt,…
Crucial Power Analysis Missing from Courts and the Media in Shafia Murder Case
On the surface, the Shafia murder case doesn’t look like a “political” issue at all. The horrifying killing of four innocent women by family members…
Book Review: The Strength of Women
Indigenous women survive, flourish, work for needed change The Strength of Women: Âhkamêyimowak, Priscilla Settee, Coteau Books, Regina, 2011. * * * “There is a…
Democracy
Hennessy’s Index: A number is never just a number Hennessy’s Index is a monthly listing of numbers, written by the CCPA’s Trish Hennessy, about Canada…
Feminism FOR REAL
Deconstructing the academic industrial complex of feminism When feminism becomes its own form of oppression, what do we have to say about it? Western notions…
Rights-Based Legal Aid
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Speaking Truth to Power
A reader on Canadian women’s inequality Download 166.64 KB126 pages Contributors: Pat Armstrong * Sheila Copps * Eve-Lyne Couturier * Shelagh Day * Jane Doe…
BC Commentary: A Review of Provincial Social and Economic Trends
Spring 2010, Volume 13, Number 2 Download 928.37 KB Inside this issue: Add Your Voice to the New Call for a Poverty Reduction Plan by…
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