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admin • April 6, 2010
Burqas, hijabs, niqabs, oh my!
Sana Saeed • April 1, 2010
Law 94 is veiled identity politics Read More
A bittesweet goodbye
Justin Scherer • April 1, 2010
Easy truffles to end off the school year Read More
CKUT gets fee increase
Eric Andrew-Gee • March 29, 2010
75 cent hike will go toward deficit Read More
Disordered terminology
Quinn Albaugh • March 27, 2010
Over the past few years, the medical establishment has been moving away from the terms “intersex conditions” or “intersex people” toward “disorders of sex development” (DSD). The aim of this shift, according to the 2006 “consensus statement” in the journal Pediatrics, is to avoid using confusing or pejorative language to… Read More
Transnational abortion
Hannah Freeman • March 26, 2010
Last Tuesday, a Liberal motion in the House of Commons to modify Stephen Harper’s maternal and child health initiative for developing nations, to be presented at June’s G8 summit, failed. Harper’s program intends “to save the lives of mothers and children” by reducing preventable deaths through improved nutrition, clean water,… Read More
Step down, Benedict XVI
Riva Gold • March 26, 2010
The Pope’s mishandling of sex abuse scandals is cause for abdication Read More
Think of the children!
Quinn Albaugh • March 21, 2010
In recent years, doctors have started prescribing hormone blockers (HBs) for trans youth about to go through puberty. These drugs delay the onset of puberty until age 16, after which the standard treatment, hormone replacement therapy (HRT), becomes available with parental consent. In retrospect, using hormone blockers would have saved… Read More
The politics of imagery
Mike Prebil • March 21, 2010
While the hundred-some reasons to vote on the cover of the “Vote for…” issue (March 8) were generally less eye-catching than the Big-Brother-esque Martin Ssempa who appeared on the preceding issue’s cover (March 4), peering down on two gay smoochers in a Ugandan flag-themed bedspread, they were not really subdued,… Read More
Queer people and women better off in Israel
Riva Gold • March 21, 2010
In her letter dated March 11, U2 IDS student Jamie Birks begged The Daily to stop its torrent of anti-Israel coverage. Earlier this month, Mookie Kideckel called for an end to The Daily’s persistent marginalization of Israel supporters on campus, deriding the paper’s one-sided endorsement of Israeli Apartheid Week and… Read More
Ontario nuclear workers exposed to radiation
admin • March 18, 2010
Almost 200 workers may have been exposed to unhealthy amounts of radioactivity last November at the Bruce Nuclear Generating Station on the eastern shore of Lake Huron, Ontario. According to an online news release by the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC), Canada’s nuclear safety watchdog, “on November 28, 2009, routine… Read More