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Centre for Gender Advocacy launches campaign for consent workshops

Despite the start of another academic year still being months away, The Centre for Gender Advocacy is already looking towards the fall, continuing to mount a campaign to get mandatory consent workshops in Concordia University residences. The campaign includes an online petition with over 200 signatures calling for support of the workshops. The campaign seeks […]

By Jordan Venton-RubleeJul 21, 2014
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Profit over people: Federal government approves pipeline

On June 17, after years of resistance from environmental groups, citizens, and opposition parties, the Conservative government signed and approved the Enbridge’s Northern Gateway pipeline. The pipeline, which stretches across Alberta and British Columbia, has been in the works for the last few years, despite many Indigenous communities and Canadian scientists coming out to oppose […]

By Jordan Venton-RubleeJun 20, 2014
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Bill C-36: Conservatives should actually listen to sex workers

Last winter, history was made in Canada when, after years of lobbying, the Supreme Court struck down three major aspects of sex work laws in Canada, making them void. This was a unique occurrence, where the Supreme Court gave legislators one year to come up with new legislation. This opportunity for change meant that Canada […]

By Jordan Venton-RubleeJun 12, 2014
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Plan B: Harper limits maternal health – again

Anti-abortion activists are once again upset after the federal government announced last week that the Department of Foreign Affairs has funded the “morning after pill,” also known as Plan B, to give out in their maternal health program in Afghanistan. The contraceptive was given out as part of a program which began in 2010 under […]

By Jordan Venton-RubleeJun 7, 2014Jun 7, 2014
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Is a Justin Trudeau pro choice statement enough?

Media attention to abortion in Canada ebbs and flows, and has recently been in the spotlight yet again since the impending closure of the Morgentaler clinic in New Brunswick. The clinic is the only private clinic on the island and it’s closure ultimately speaks to the broader creation of barriers for women to find accessible […]

By Jordan Venton-RubleeMay 27, 2014May 27, 2014
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No gods, no masters, no bosses, no borders: Anarchist Bookfair returns to Montreal

The Anarchist Bookfair has returned once again to Montreal, bringing thousands of anarchists – and those curious – from across North America to the city. The fair, with the tagline “no gods, no masters, no bosses, no borders,” is now in its the fifteenth year. The Bookfair takes place during the Festival of Anarchy, a […]

By Jordan Venton-RubleeMay 22, 2014May 22, 2014
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RCMP releases count on missing and murdered Indigenous women

After years of demands for a national inquiry into the status of missing and murdered Indigenous women in Canada, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) has finally released the number of missing and murdered Indigenous women in Canada. The number – 1,186 women missing or murdered over the past thirty years – was made public […]

By Jordan Venton-RubleeMay 13, 2014
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Centre for Gender Advocacy launches trans discrimination case against Quebec Superior Court

On May 3, one day after Trans Pride Day in Montreal, the Centre for Gender Advocacy launched legal action against the Superior Court of Quebec to invalidate legal discrimination against trans and intersex individuals in the province. This is not the first time gender markers have been debated about in Quebec. Last spring the PLQ […]

By Jordan Venton-RubleeMay 7, 2014
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