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HOCKEY WIVES AND ABORTION

I hate picking on women. We're born at a disadvantage and in our wild flailing to stay afloat, we make such easy targets. But really, do the wives and girlfriends of the Ottawa Senators have to dress up in matching pink team sweaters and call their ad hoc union "The Better Halves"?
by Heather Mallick
http://www.rabble.ca/columnists_full.shtml?x=65200


WOMEN SHUT OUT OF EMPLOYMENT INSURANCE

The gap between men's and womenís EI coverage is significant: 40 per cent of unemployed men received EI benefits in 2004 while only 32 per cent of unemployed women did.
Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
http://www.rabble.ca/in_cahoots.shtml?x=65175

CANADA'S ONLY LESBIAN

You can count the number of Canadian lesbian heroes on two hands, and Jane Rule, who died at her home on Galiano Island of liver cancer last week, represents one whole handful.
by Susan G. Cole
NOW Magazine
http://www.rabble.ca/link.shtml?x=65209

HATE? LET'S TAKE A VALIUM

That's a weird commission in Quebec, the one on hate, whoops, I mean "reasonable accommodation."
by Rick Salutin
http://www.rabble.ca/columnists_full.shtml?x=65243

SHAWN BRANT ON TYENDINAGA RESISTANCE

Shawn Brant is spokesperson for the Bay of Quinte Mohawks and is facing the threat of jail for his part in actions that have closed CN rail lines and blocked the 401.
by Matt Silburn
http://www.rabble.ca/rabble_interview.shtml?x=65054

SHAWN BRANT ON TYENDINAGA RESISTANCE: PART II

Shawn Brant, spokesperson for the Bay of Quinte Mohawks, discusses blockades, economic disruption and the necessity of sacrifice in the struggle for First Nations rights.
by Matt Silburn
http://www.rabble.ca/rabble_interview.shtml?x=65142