• From Rush Limbaugh to fellatio parties; double standards persist

  6 Mars 2012 - 16 h 58

  Every year, as International Women’s Day approaches, I contemplate whether – as a woman and a weekly columnist – I’ll write on the issue. Every year, I question whether there’s anything new to write about, or whether – after years of...

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• Robocalls a new low in Canadian politics

  29 Février 2012 - 16 h 14

  “Everyone knows politics is a contact sport,” Barack Obama once said, and those who follow politics religiously, whether because it’s their job or it’s in their best interest as voters to do so, know that to clearly be the case.

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• Parents wrong to reject ethics and religion course

  23 Février 2012 - 10 h 29

  If "education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one," as Malcolm Forbes once stated, it stands to reason that the frantic attempts made by the Drummondville couple to exempt their child from the new ethics and religious culture...

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• Does defending civil liberties in this country mean siding with child pornographers?

  15 Février 2012 - 15 h 55

  Public Minister Vic Toews is busy currently introducing lawful access legislation (Bill C-30) in the House of Commons. Among its many new mandates will be the disclosure of Internet provider customer information without court oversight and new...

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• Madonna challenges antiquated notions of female sexuality

  10 Février 2012 - 13 h 47

  When it was announced that Madonna would be performing at the Super Bowl half-time show, I responded with a shrug of the shoulders. I’m neither a fan of football, nor overblown spectacles designed to entertain a crowd that's full on Budweiser...

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• Boisvenu comments objectionable, but…

  3 Février 2012 - 17 h 18

  I hate when I find myself siding with someone I fundamentally disagree with, because it always makes me feel a little dirty. Like I need to quickly run and take a shower…

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• Turning on that switch...

  27 Janvier 2012 - 11 h 11

  A few days ago, I – along with everyone else in my company- was convened to attend a motivational speech by Pierre Lavoie. His speech, in the middle of a very busy production day, on the other side of town, necessitated a frantic morning of...

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• Words matter. But only when some people use them, right?

  20 Janvier 2012 - 11 h 02

  When rumours circulated that hip hop artist Jay-Z would stop using the word “b*tch” in his songs now that he and Beyonce were the proud parents of a baby girl, my immediate thought was: “That’s nice. What about the word “n*gga”?

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• Defections, turncoats, about-facing. Just another day in politics...

  12 Janvier 2012 - 13 h 13

  They say a week is an eternity in politics, but this past week must have gone by in painfully slow motion for certain federal and provincial party leaders, who saw their members defect.

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• Our new dependency

  6 Janvier 2012 - 15 h 41

  I’m writing this week’s column on my lunch break. I have a tuna salad to my left, my desktop in front of me, e-mail open, my iPhone to my right, and a second screen showcasing nothing but Twitter accounts I follow. Every once in a while my...

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