Erin Perse
Young woman surprised to match with Jessica Yaniv on lesbians-only dating app
In Vancouver, a 23-year-old woman downloaded lesbian dating app HER in the hope of meeting someone for love and companionship. Instead, she matched with Jessica Yaniv.
Why is CBC painting a sympathetic picture of an alleged child murderer?
The CBC's coverage of an alleged child killer asks reader to sympathize with the murderer, not the little girl. The man deserves a fair trial, but not sympathy.
Calgary criminalizes conversion therapy for trans-affirming youth
A Calgary city council committee criminalized conversation therapy, including therapy to encourage kids to accept their biological sex.
Trudeau government pulls funding for human trafficking victims
Nine agencies across Canada that provide services for trafficked and exploited women and girls have been told there is no more money to support their programs.
X Æ A-12 will be a gender neutral baby
While well-intentioned, there are limits to the usefulness of gender neutral approaches to parenting, and it arguably invites risks to children's development and wellbeing.
Women forced by courts to refer to rapists’ preferred pronouns
Female victims in court proceedings are now bound to refer to males who physically and sexually attack them as "she" if that is their preferred pronoun.
NY Governor Cuomo uses pandemic funding bill to push through commercial surrogacy
Governor Andrew Cuomo has been pushing for commercial surrogacy to become law for some time, and he's now done it by tying it to pandemic funding measures.
Malaysia asks women to shoulder burden of coronavirus
Malaysia instructed its women to keep the peace by refraining from "nagging," using a cutesy voice, wearing make-up and dressing up while stuck at home.
Domestic violence increases with accelerating coronavirus curve
Canada should take note from domestic violence increases in countries that are ahead of the coronavirus curve, and act now to ensure women and children are protected.
A staycation of coronaviral proportions
My children and I may be stuck in semi-permanent staycation mode, while their father holds down his job from a messy kitchen office, taking conference calls in the master bedroom.
Olympic postponement delays reckoning over women's sports
The postponement of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics due to coronavirus prolongs the question of whether male athletes who self-ID as women will compete in women’s sports.
Reality has begun to bite in London
Despite our good humour about the new normal rituals of bumping elbows and washing hands, we are now aware that beneath the Blitz spirit all is not hunky dory.
