Tell the New York City Taxi and Limousine Commission to remove strip club ads from yellow cabs. Harvard researchers have found that elderly hospitalized patients cared for by female doctors are less…
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Russian Hunger Games-style contest, “Game2: Winter,” will allow “everything,” including “fighting, alcohol, murder, smoking…” Oh. And rape. The Princeton men’s swimming and diving team has been suspended due to “vulgar and offensive…
Tory MP Philip Davies wants the word “women” removed from Women and Equalities Committee title: “I’d prefer if it was just called the equalities committee. I don’t see why it needs to…
Canadian Armed Forces facing human rights complaint after ignoring multiple reports of sexual harassment from a former recruit. Paula MacDonald suffered PTSD after her time spent in service. She is part of…
Oxford student union advises students to use gender neutral pronouns such as “ze,” instead of “he” or “she,” in order to avoid offending transgender students. Canadian government to study effects of violent…
Students at Reed College in Oregon hang signs reading “Fuck your transphobia” and “Fuck this cis white bitch,” then scream “Fuck you scared bitch” in protest of Kim Peirce, director of Boys…
Female filmmakers in sausage suits storm Australian red carpet, shouting “end the sausage party!” to protest male domination of film industry. Trump’s harassment of a teenage girl on Twitter lead to rape…
Black rights activist Viola Desmond will be the first Canadian woman to be featured on the country’s $10 bill. Often referred to as “Canada’s Rosa Parks,” (though her historic act of defiance occurred nine years before…
Julian Assange speaks out against Swedish prosecutors over rape allegations, claiming they released information prematurely that lead to an “aura of guilt.” Assembly of First Nations regional Chief Shane Gottfriedson resigns from…
The Femicide Census shows that over 900 women were killed by men (most by current or former partners) in six years in England and Wales. Angela Merkel calls for burqa ban in…
What’s Current: Mohammed Shamji charged with murdering Elana Fric-Shamji after she filed for divorce
Less than a week after filing for divorce, Elana Fric-Shamji was found dead. Her soon-to-be ex-husband, a neurosurgeon with Toronto Western Hospital, has been charged with her murder. Fric-Shamji’s body was found in…
Italian director Bernando Bertolucci admits that he and Marlon Brando conspired to film the last scene in Last Tango In Paris without Maria Schneider’s consent. In 2007, Schneider said she felt “raped” by…
What’s Current: Bresha Meadows, accused of killing her abusive father, will not be tried as an adult
Breaking: Bresha Meadows will not be tried as an adult, no longer faces possible life sentence in prison. The 15-year-old girl has been incarcerated for four months after allegedly killing her abusive…
Canadian Judicial Council’s committee of inquiry recommends that Justice Robin Camp, who asked a rape victim why she couldn’t just “keep her knees together,” be removed from the bench. UBC’s “Free Speech…
Anna Yocca, a Tennessee woman who was forced to attempt an unsafe self-abortion, now faces new felony charges. Yocca was first arrested for attempted murder of her fetus and thrown into county…