Oscar Pistorius found guilty of the murder of Reeva Steenkamp as South African court accepts appeal to overturn manslaughter conviction. Currently under house arrest after spending only one year of his original…
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What’s Current: Martin Tremblay ruled a dangerous offender, sentenced to indeterminate jail sentence
Martin Tremblay, the B.C. man who preyed on Indigenous girls on the DTES for years has been ruled a dangerous offender and sentenced to an indeterminate jail sentence. Tremblay was convicted in…
It’s time we admit the fact that there are many ways to be male and female. New research published yesterday puts yet another nail in the coffin of the myth of the…
Porn actor James Deen dropped from major porn studio Kink.com amid rape allegations, which is ironic considering that Kink’s product is violent sex. That thing where you log in to the internet…
Gunman shoots multiple people at Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs. White U.S. Senator says terrorists “look more like me” than Middle Easterners, stating, “They are generally white males, who have shot…
Residents of the Kingsway-Fraser area in Vancouver say police are not addressing “predatory behaviour” from pimps and johns. The recently formed Cedar Cottage Neighbourhood Association is asking the city to enforce the…
Despite the growing numbers of women in journalism, progress for women in news media grinds to a halt. Extensive results of the Global Media Monitoring Project (GMMP) released November 23 show that:…
Gambia has announced it will ban female genital mutilation, a practice that affects three-quarters of women in the west African country. President, Yahya Jammeh, said, last night, that the ban would come…
Thirteen-year-old girl lured via Facebook, forced into prostitution by two young men and a 17-year-old girl in Toronto. “If there was not a demand for sex with a child, then there would…
Seven girls were kicked off their high school basketball team for complaining about the “very feely” coach. Sign the petition to save the Butterfly Cave that has acted as sanctuary to generations…
A judge has sentenced former Subway pitchman Jared Fogle to 15 years and eight months in prison for paying for sex with girls as young as 16 and receiving child pornography produced…
The “Female Viagra” isn’t selling! It turns out women don’t want to take an expensive daily pill with sketchy side effects that may or may not make submitting to sex more appealing.…
Rose McGowan, in her usual unapologetic style, speaks her mind about Caitlyn Jenner. She wrote on Facebook (the post has since been deleted): “Woman of the year? No, not until you wake…
Gawker Media has a problem with women. “A former staff writer describes how a media company founded on whistleblowing and radical transparency failed its female employees.” Woman posts terrifying account of playing…
Glosswitch asks: “Why don’t we value older women?” “As shown by the recent furore over Germaine Greer lecturing at Cardiff University, it’s not enough to disagree with an older woman. One must…