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Trudeau may tweet a good game on equal rights, but his broken promises are hurting women
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Emilie Taman
| February 2, 2017

We are at a scary point in history -- one that I hope will end up being told through the voices of the hundreds of thousands of courageous people pouring onto the streets to stand in defiance of the hate, fear, racism and misogyny that is being propagated by the new American President and political opportunists here in Canada.

Monday, we stood together in shock, mourning the six innocent victims of this political agenda of racism and intolerance. Men shot, here in Canada, because they prayed at a mosque instead of a church.

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A benefit system disadvantaging Canada's poorest children

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Lindsey McKay, postdoctoral fellow at Brock University's Sociology Department, is among the thousands of Canadian mothers ineligible for maternity benefits. 

McKay, who gave birth to twins in 2011, missed out because she was studying at the time.

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Is it time for a Canadian 'daddy month'?
By
Kate McInturff
| August 1, 2014

What makes for happy families? It turns out parents and policy-makers could learn a lesson or two from their kids.

Lesson one: share.

OK, I'll admit it, there is one thing you can't share -- those nine awesome months of heartburn and swollen ankles. But the day your bundle of joy arrives, the sharing benefits start. In 2006 Quebec implemented a new paternity leave program to help fathers share more of the benefits and (yes, also the dirty diaper, and the middle of the night headaches) with mothers. Result? More fathers take time out after their kids are born in Quebec than in the rest of Canada. A lot more. Three times more.

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