What’s Current: Tory MPP worried zero-tolerance policy for sexual assault of medical patients is ‘overly harsh’

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Ontario MPP claims zero-tolerance policy on doctors who sexually abuse patients is too mean. 

Canadian Supreme Court may be looking at prostitution laws once again after the municipality of York wins the right to regulate hours of a “body rub parlour.”

Anti-abortion activists charged with 15 felonies after filming 14 people without their consent at women’s health care clinics.

Why is there no public debate over what constitutes being a “man?” Because we treat womanhood like it’s whatever is left over after manhood, says Sarah Ditum.

Australian man who beat his estranged wife in the head with a hatchet cries victimhood himself.

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Jess Martin is a public relations professional, an aspiring writer, and an assistant editor at Feminist Current. She prefers to write about feminist topics, disability, or environmental issues, but could be persuaded to broaden her horizons in exchange for payment and/or food. In her spare time Jess can be found knitting, gardening, or lying in the fetal position, mulling over political theory that no one in their right mind cares about.