Editorial: The Greens—ain’t no single-issue party

Aside from the major political parties—Conservative, Bloc, Liberal and NDP—there are a lot of other parties trying to gain power within the federal government. While parties like the Marijuana party are pretty cut and dry being a one-issue party, others, like the Green Party, are somewhat more ambiguous. At first glance, one might think the party is a decidedly “left” one, putting environmental issues on the table for concrete policy change. And besides, Jim Harris began the party’s leaning to the right when he introduced issues on which he was a fiscal conservative. But Elizabeth May, the leader of the illusive party, is the one that has placed herself and her party in the murky position of opposing abortion. She has been harshly criticized for her comments, made during a recorded talk to sisters at the Mount St. Joseph convent late last year. The loaded question: what was her stance on the abortion and same-sex marriage issues? May answered with the pre-packaged official position (GP is pro-choice and supports therapeutic abortion, while the same-sex marriage issue is a closed one since it is a human rights one). What the audience was privy to however, is May’s personal opinion, a rare thing in Canadian politics. May said abortion was, to her, “a moral dilemma” and expressed a wish to reopen the debate on the woman’s right to choice.
May said when she hears “a woman’s right to choice” she gets “queasy,” adding that she didn’t think that “a woman has a frivolous right to choose.” After these comments went public, Judy Rebnick, in an open letter on the online news website rabble.ca (which Rebnick founded) officially removed her support from the Green Party. Rebnick addressed her discontent with May’s insistence on reopening the debate, an issue Rebnick should no longer be up for debate after its long, sordid history. It’s not also coincidence that May is being courted by the Liberals, a fence the Canadian public might soon see her jump.

Elizabeth May will be participating in a discussion about climate change policies under the Blueprints for Change conference at Concordia University.

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M*A*C* cosmetics finally break out their master plan: Barbies all around!

MAC Cosmetics unveiled their new Spring campaign and this time, you're in it doll. With what their calling "a modern rebel attitude and fashionable indie style" it appears MAC's marketing staff got high after smoking lotsa hash and totally zoned out on kid sister's Barbie collection. But amidst the flurry of drug-induced excitement (why didn't we ever think of that!) one question remains--Where is Skipper?

D.E.B.S. director reels us in with split screen and half-naked Shane

Thanks to D.E.B.S. writer and director Angela Robinson, we got to finally laugh and nuance the characters performance sans the PBS after-school special shit they've been trying to dose us with these past 5 episodes.

The L Word was some kind of wonderful last week. I can't recap with justice, but this writer from afterellen.com can.

FREE BRITNEY

She's left her rehab centre in Antigua to come to Sherman Oaks, Calif., tattoo parlour and hair salon for shaving and tattooing. She reportedly said she is sick of people touching her, which is why she cut it all off. The hairstylist refused to shave her so she did it herself. Then she got two tattoos--a pair of lips on her wrist and a cross on her hips. Brit then went to Cedars Sinai Hospital in a brown wig where she left before being admitted.

Funny how as soon as a woman does a strange hairstyle she is deemed out of control or crazy--is identity caught up in head hair? JEEZ.

For the love of everything that is holy--when will people leave her the eff alone?

Drew Barrymore '86-ed it!

Happy singles' awareness day!!!!

I'm CRAZY ON YOU.

JUST LEAVE HER THE EFF ALONE

Brit-brit

The folks at page six posted this item about an open letter from Rabbi Boteach urging her to get her shit together. Why didn't he just send it to her? Why make a letter open? Sorry if I'm mistaken, but shouldn't open letter writers at least attempt to send the thing to the person first? I mean then you could be vindicatged in your asshole move of publising the letter, opening it to the public. I really don't know about the etiquette of snail mail, or even much about "paper things" as opposed to virtual ones; but I digress.

February 12, 2007 -- EVEN though Britney Spears forgot to put her Star of David around her neck Saturday night (inset, picking up a friend in the West Village for a night on the town), Rabbi Shmuley Boteach has some advice for the pop tart. In an open letter to Spears, Shmuley said, "Allow me to share with you a teaching of the ancient Rabbis." These teachings include tips like, "Once you become a parent, Britney, life gets really serious . . . We can all pretend that life is one big party devoid of responsibility. And rarely being home, or coming home drunk, or letting your kids see you in a degraded state, will permanently scar your kids." Shmuley continues, "Soon your boys will be surfing the Internet. They'll see a lot of photos of you in poses that no son should ever see their own mother . . . Try and be home with your kids . . . Cover up . . . Limit the visits to the nightclubs." The spiritual leader ends his letter by saying, "I know you can get your life together, Britney. G - d bless you."

Do Fathers4Justice have an anti-feminist agenda?

Barbara Legault and A Babord magazine, a social and political French-language revue, is being sued by Andy Srougi for libelous claims published in the October/November issue of 2006.

He has accused Legault of uttering hateful comments in the article she wrote entitled "Men against feminism." A call for solidarity is being sent out to all leftist publications and organizations. See A Babord magazine for more detail.

It's kind of contradictory to sue Legault for calling Srougi an anti-feminist--a charge the claimant apparently finds hateful. How can "anti-feminist" be a hateful utterance if the group implicitly calls the judicial process the same in regards to awarding fathers time with their children? Isn't feminsim to blame for the juridical process you claim is anti-father... anti-men?

Fathers for justice caused major upheaval last summer when a man stood on top of the Jacques-Cartier Bridge in a publicity move for the lobbying group. they claim that men should be awarded custody as easily as women are in the divorce fights. The groups is also thought to be behind the scaling of a wall at Buckingham Palace dressed as Batman in January 2007.

VICE'S GIRLGUIDE: MILDLY AMUSING, WRITTEN BY A FEW MINOR A-HOLES

So. yeah.


I still be lovin' that DO & DON'T shite though! Highlights include, Hen's night Out and Hip Hop's "No Girls Allowed" policy in feature format... and this drawing by Christy Karacas.



And this diatribe about ChickLit:

"In case you’ve been living on Lord of the Flies island, “Chick Lit” is book-speak for literature written by women, for women who act like girls. We try to love it but we don’t. Why? Because it’s usually written about normal girls who have normal jobs and try to get ahead in their boring, normal careers and we can’t understand why. They are filled with clichés and have stolen our lingo, like “totes” and, even more embarrassing, ancient terms like “hottie” (so ’96). Sometimes these books are about rich women who have nannies, and then maybe their nannies keep a diary and we’re supposed to care about that too. This just in: We don’t! Honorable mentions: Cats, crafternoons!!!, caring, cliques, Cookie Mueller."

Hence, without further ado, i present to you; Girls, according to the VICE Magazine dudes.

Anti-Hall#$%k valentine's day party

Be there, square.

Author of "Cunt: a declaration of independance" to speak at Concordia

Lynnee Breedlove with Inga. What's really going on here?

Remember CUNTT? Well, she's back.

*Tuesday February 13th- Inga Muscio, author of "Cunt"
6:30 pm- Hall Building H-110 1455 de Maisenneuve w.
"Connecting the Disconnect: Racism, Feminism, Environmentalism and their connections to Queer and Trans Issues"
Inga is our featured speaker and a thought provoking left wing feminist from the West Coast of the US. Come hear the author of "Cunt" and "Autobiography of a Blue Eyed Devil" speak about all the 'isms and sexuality. There is a suggested donation of $1 for students and $2 for others, but no one will be turned away!

Here's a full schedule of activites

Concordia Sexual Diversity Alliance

Presents…
SEXUAL DIVERSITY WEEK

A week celebrating sexual diversity on and off campus, giving the Concordia community a chance to educate themselves on LGBTQ/ sexuality politics and issues.
Featuring Inga Muscio, author of "Cunt" on Feb 13, 2007.

more info available here.

Lizzy dans le noir!!!

side-splitting sillyness with a dash of hilarity. miam!

Lizzy the Lezzy for the BLIND

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Montreal's Black History Month: Two chicks for the price of six dudes

Elles sont les seules femmes en honneur?!? (Left to right, Leblanc, Legagneur).

Black History Month in Montreal is like no other. Only two women, out of the eight total winners, are being honoured this year—Laurraine Leblanc and Maryse Legagneur.

Leblanc, pictured above, is a Montreal publicist who filed a complaint about Couche Tard under the Quebec human rights commission for racist candy wrappers. The wrappers depicted a spider as having the face of a black man, replete with an offensive sneer and dreadlocks for spiderlegs. She won, and the Couche-Tard was ordered to donate $18,000 to a youth group in Little Burgundy.

Don't eat this candy.

Legagneur on the other hand, is a getting-established Quebécoise documentarian. She made a doc, Au nom de la mère et du fils about "immigrant experience in Quebec. It follows the daily lives of two young men of Haitian origin in the Montreal neighbourhood of Saint-Michel," (from the NFB website). Next flick is Labsus.

Lindalee Tracey: the 70s were "the last good time to be a stripper"

Hot Docs will award a prize to for emergent documentray filmamkers in honour of spirited lady Lindalee Tracey who died last October. The former erotic dancer was underage when she started getting naked for money and fame in 1973—and she started this charity initiative called "Tits for Tots." She actually like stripping and said the 70s were "the last good time to be a stripper." true dat!
Tracey is also remembered for her range of subjects in her documentaries. She covered her own dad—in Abby, I Hardly Knew Ya, which told about his life and his subsequent homelessness after leaving her and her mother. In Bhopal: The Search for Justice, she brought international attention to the chemical spill that killed thousands in India.