While the world marks International Women’s Day and celebrates female achievements, there is still a long way to go for women in the media industries. Women’s underrepresentation in film and video gaming continues […]
Hamilton’s Garment District has been noticeably more colourful this past month. Several of the Ottawa Street stores have joined together to celebrate International Women’s Day by decorating their windows in yellow. The presence of the […]
This past week, four teams secured their spot in the UEFA Champions League quarter-finals, the biggest European club football competition. On Tuesday, Spain’s Real Madrid faced Manchester United, and Dortmund took on Shakhtar. Wednesday’s games […]
The news of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez’s death Mar. 5 shook up the entire world. Not only Latin Americans but people from other regions and countries broke into tears. By contrast, some Western countries such […]
On Thursday Mar. 7, McMaster University students, working alongside the Sexual Assault Centre for Hamilton Area and the YWCA, celebrated the launch of their two-year campaign to end violence towards women on their campus. The […]
A 15-year-old is gunned down in an apartment stairwell in Regent Park in late January. Not even a week later, a 9-year-old is shot dead in his own home in Brampton as a bullet tears […]
While Canada is often praised for the leaps it has made towards gender equality, a major source of inequality persists. The gender wage gap – or, the difference between what men and women earn in […]
Violet glowing indoor tanning beds will soon have to post warning labels similar to the graphic alerts placed on cigarette packaging. Health Minister Leona Aglukkaq recently said Health Canada will soon require that tanning beds […]
Join us tonight while we live blog the Academy Awards. We will be covering the winners, the losers, and everything in between starting at 7 p.m. tonight! [blyve id=”88452a51983be932e4040000″ width=”400″ height=”550″]
This week Toronto city council declined a motion to hold an emergency debate regarding an increase in shelter beds for the homeless. Here are some of the real people who are struggling to survive the […]
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