Body Politic
Meanwhile, in America, someone compares health care reform to 9/11
Yesterday was a big day for our neighbours (or, sorry, is that “neighbors”?) next door! August 1 marked the first day that United States’ federal health reform contraception mandate comes into play. Starting now, the next time that insurance companies go into open enrollment periods (the period where new policy years start and they bring… More »
Messy Monday June 4: Sexy bridge trolls and the Etch-A-Sketch President
Happy Monday, everyone! Ready for your dose of fresh queer feminism yet? No? Drink some coffee. How about now? Yeah? Super. Luka Magnotta dated a trans woman, get over it. By now you’ve probably heard of Luka Magnotta—the Montreal porn actor who allegedly killed, sexually assaulted and ate a 33-year-old man. I’d like to spend… More »
Messy Monday May 28: Slutwalk, Catholics and a very fast puppy
Good-day, tired and slightly ragey cubicle dwellers (and those of you still eating Pillsbury Cookies at home in your PJs.) It’s Monday. I was hoping to write this a few hours ago, but I wasn’t expecting this weekend to be so slut-tastic. Slutwalk Toronto took the streets yet again Friday evening for a 2012 encore… More »
Occupy: a thorn in the side of every presidential hopeful
“Lets see, there was David, Jess, Erin, Frankie, Kevin, Kalen…” It’s just past 2 p.m. on the last day of 2011, and Jessica Mizour, 24, of Des Moines, Iowa, is jotting down the names of the protesters who were moments ago arrested at Michele Bachman’s Iowa campaign headquarters. “…Peter from St. Paul, Brian from New… More »
Body Politic #15: Canadian teenagers—now with more Bisphenol-A!
Canadians – a bunch of walking, talking BPA vessels? Apparently so. Statistics Canada recently released results from their first nationwide look into bisphenol A, and the results aren’t pretty. According to a Globe and Mail report on the stats, 91 per cent of Canadians tested show some sort of BPA exposure, and teenagers carry most of… More »
Body Politic #14: What we need to hear from the G(irls) 20 Summit
We’ve talked a lot about what’s going wrong so far with the G20 and G8 meetings taking place in Ontario this year. And lord knows there are plenty of problems: aside from the lack of discussion surrounding women’s health we’re now chopping down trees in an urban jungle and searching around for supposedly stolen police… More »
Body Politic #13: Trouble in Cougar Town
Aside from the fact that single older women have enough stigma to deal with, the “cougar” trend has been a rampant part of pop culture for years now. And while, for some reason, the thought of an older woman dating a younger man draws giggles and raised eyebrows more often than not, up until this… More »
Body Politic #12: Why are Conservative female politicians silent on women's health?
The more things change, the more they stay the same. This certainly rings true in the world of health policy: there’s a lot of talk, and the idea of change or reform is nice to think about, regardless of whether it ever happens. Recently, it seems that absolutely nothing is changing at all. Because for… More »
Body Politic #10: Tories won't say it, but birth control saves lives
Update, Friday, March 19: It seems to me that it’s impossible to truly know where the government stands. One moment the foreign minister says birth control isn’t included in their G8 maternal health push. The next the prime minister’s backing up on that, saying discussion around birth control’s not out of the cards. *** There… More »
Body Politic #9: The right to choose (to live-tweet your abortion)
In the Twitter-verse, news spreads fast, is debunked faster, and is retweeted before you can think of something better to say. Gordon Lightfoot can attest to this, I’m sure. So when a long story is slowly told through the 140-character limit, it tends to make people pay attention. That’s what happened when Angie Jackson decided… More »
