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"What I learned led me to conclude that a toxic culture prevails in the RCMP. This culture encourages, or at least tolerates, misogynistic, racist and homophobic attitudes among many members of the RCMP...I am of the opinion that the culture change is highly unlikely to come from within the RCMP. The latter has had many years to proceed, has been the subject of numerous reports and recommendations, and yet unacceptable behaviour continues to occur.'

People with disabilities deserve a basic income By EVELYN FORGET AND SHEILA REGEHR Last month’s Throne Speech committed to the creation of a new Canadian Disability Benefit for persons with disabilities that’s good news. The details remain vague, but some disability advocates have long championed a basic income for people with disabilities. The new Disability Benefit may offer a step toward that reality. Basic income is a guarantee that no Canadian will have to live on an i...Continue reading

Our member Hilla Kerner will be speaking with Robert Jensen and Vednita Carter at the Green Party of Georgia (USA) panel conversation on Ending Male Violence against Women with this Generation on Tuesday, Nov 24, 6pmPST.

Federal inmates' risk assessments determine everything from where a prisoner is incarcerated to what rehabilitation programs they are offered. After controlling for a number of variables, The Globe found Black and Indigenous inmates are more likely to get worse scores than white inmates, based solely on their race By TOM CARDOSO After a year spent staring at the walls of his cell at the Sudbury Jail, Nicholas Nootchtai finally had his sentence. Twelve years. Manslaughter. It ...Continue reading

This is one of our 12 upcoming events. See the full program here: https://www.rapereliefshelter.bc.ca//montreal-massacre-mem

These are two of our 12 upcoming events. See the full program here: https://www.rapereliefshelter.bc.ca//montreal-massacre-mem

There is a lot of history that has been intentionally left out of textbooks.

"Capitalism at its worst withholding the essential, providing the unnecessary."

So many good things in this article including the fact she found JK Rowling’s article on sex and gender, a perfectly reasonable piece in her view, earlier this year. Again JK Rowling is a woman who is progressive, who clearly stands for and believes in diversity.

Simone de Beauvoir said that a crisis will suffice for women’s rights to be threatened. What happened in #Poland today is yet another proof that she was right. ... The constitutional tribunal has voted it is constitutional to ban abortions due to medical reasons, including worst foetus defects, making abortion virtually illegal, as 98% of all abortion procedures in Poland were performed for such reasons. The abortion law in Poland is amongst the strictest in the world. For the past 4 years, activists for women’s rights have been actively campaigning to repel abortion restrictions. The women’s strike and the black protests moved the world, gathered international solidarity and showed the strength of feminist organising. And yet all it took was a moment of the movement’s immobility due to COVID-19 restrictions for women’s reproductive rights to be stripped. The decision is a result of political cynicism the Plish government is trying to cover up its complete inability to govern the country going through a global crisis. But it’s also a sign of its total contempt for women’s lives. The inevitable death and suffering of thousands of women means nothing to them to them women are merely incubators and caretakers preserving the functioning of a sadistic state. They proved how easy it is to deprive them of autonomy over their own bodies. Don’t get it twisted it is vital to acknowledge that they attacked women as it is women as a political and social class that is deemed powerless in the eyes of the state. It is the female sex that is being controlled and exploited for political purposes. We stand in solidarity with all women in Poland. It is a global fight, as it is the patriarchy ruling over our bodies. It is a feminist struggle to its core to make sure that women everywhere are safe and in control of their destinies. http://wiadomosci.dziennik.pl/shutterstock

A new report estimates that 29 million women and girls are victims of modern slavery, exploited by practices including forced labour, forced marriage, debt-bondage and domestic servitude.

#sisterhood is powerful in #covid times and always.

https://uofmpress.ca/books/detail/a-two-spirit-journey

FiLiA is setting up a Feminist Book Club in Hampshire - if you're interested in joining us, please email [email protected]. Let us know if you're setting up a F...eminist Book Club anywhere else too! Sisterhood and Solidarity! FiLiA Team

"women receive a kind of hate that will never target menattacks focused not on content, but on the journalists themselves. They regularly encounter vicious messages about their appearance and sexuality. They receive death and rape threats and in some extreme cases, their addresses and personal phone numbers are published onlinea practice known as doxing. "

In 2019, 15% of women who were Canadian military college (CMC) students stated that they had been sexually assaulted in the previous 12 months. In addition, 52% of women CMC students had been personally targeted by some type of unwanted sexualized behaviour.

We are in support Of B.C.-based chapters of the Council of Canadians and the broad coalition demanding that the B.C. government end the many ways it subsidizes fossil fuel corporations. The question for all candidates is simple: Will you end all government subsidies to the oil and gas industry?

THE RADICAL NOTION - New not-for-profit quarterly magazine for the resurgent wave of feminist thinking and activism.

https://www.rapereliefshelter.bc.ca//women-colours-experie

We are excited to see a new formation of Canadian feminists! Make sure to "like" and follow them.

Another devastating case of male murderous violence against women.

Strong Woman Song closing the launch of the Indigenous Women's Council for the Lower Mainland.

Fay Blaney speaking for the Aboriginal Women’s Action Network at the launch of the Indigenous Women's Council for the Lower Mainland. Right now at the Vancouver Art Gallery.