I don’t leave my house much these days. If I do, it’s quite a production.
I haven’t lost use of my limbs or become an agoraphobe; I’m a new mom. And getting my baby boy and me out of the house to enjoy the gentle breezes takes the tactical skills of a four-star general.
Used to [...]
My ideal holiday involves sun, by a pool, a never-ending supply of chilled diet coke, and a sky-high pile of novels to read while the stresses of home and school evaporate. However, holidays are not always just about the individual; they are about the family. That appears to be a straightforward problem; yet, is it [...]
One Sunday night, while fretting about ungraded year 10 papers, I was flicking through the channels and stopped to watch “Child of Our Time,” a social study where 20 British children born in 2000 will be documented until the age of 25. The purpose of the televised documentary is to see if their life experiences [...]
In the past year, the Equal Opportunities Commission in the UK has celebrated 30 years of the Sex Discrimination Act. The state of women’s employment has changed dramatically in this time. A couple of years before the Act was passed, only one in four mothers with pre-school children was working, but by 2004, this figure [...]
When I began my career in law enforcement, I had no idea that one day I would become a specialist in the area of family violence. It all started in the fall of 1984, when I graduated from the Atlantic Police Academy at Holland College in Charlottetown with a Corrections Diploma, and started working in [...]
Burnaby Lake is located at the centre of Burnaby, an economic tributary to Vancouver, British Columbia, and exists as an urban sanctuary for wildlife. In particular, this unique area is an important stopover for over 200 species of migrating birds and waterfowl travelling on the Pacific Flyway. There are laws now in place for protecting [...]
Recently, a friend of mine jokingly referred to me as “PEI’s Jamie Oliver”. Oliver— the infamous “Naked Chef”—has become a media darling, and has been credited with single handedly changing the foods that British students eat at school. Over the past five years, I have appeared in the local media a number of times speaking [...]
The Superwoman: a professional woman, a friend, a lover, a mother, a wife, a sister, a daughter, an athlete, an artist, who desires to be feminine and while doing so, she ends up “the superwoman.”
Feminist Media Scholar Susan Douglas suggests that women currently receive profoundly contradictory messages about what constitutes “ideal femininity,” and how “ideal [...]
