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Women, Sex Work, and Homelessness
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On February 23rd, CKDU’s Jane Kirby and Melissa Albiani hosted Hour 2 of the 8th Annual Homelessness Marathon live from St. Matthew’s United Church, beside the Emergency Out of the Cold Shelter.
Kirby and Albiani interviewed a variety of panelists to discuss criminalization of sex work, the funding crisis and cutbacks [...]
McGill activists shut down ‘Choose Life’
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October 30, 2009
by Jane Kirby
HALIFAX – On October 5th, pro-choice activists at McGill university shut down a presentation hosted by the student society Choose Life entitled “Echoes of the Holocaust”. The talk, given by Jose Ruba of the Canadian Centre for Bioethical Reform, compares abortion to genocide and has been deemed sexist [...]
Nova Scotia transition houses in peril
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Bryony House is a shelter for abused women and their children. It has been operating in Halifax for 31 years, and is the largest transition house for women in Nova Scotia. Each year Bryony House offers safety and shelter to over 450 women and children and answers over 4000 distress calls.
Due to a funding freeze [...]
Women accused of wearing trousers in Sudan
A Sudanese woman arrested in July for flouting Sudan’s decency laws for wearing trousers has been spared the expected Islamic punishment of 40 lashes. Lubna Ahmed al-Hussein was instead ordered to pay a fine of about $200 following a court decision in Khartoum, the Sudanese capital.
Scores of female supporters rallied behind Lubna shouting ‘freedom’. When [...]
Walking for Justice
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HALIFAX – On Thursday, August 20th, CKDU’s Melissa Albiani interviewed Gladys Radek. Radek is a founder and co-organizer of the Walk 4 Justice. Radek, in collaboration with Bernie Williams, an activist working in the Downtown East Side of Vancouver, completed the third Walk for Justice in the spring of 2009.
This year’s walk began in Vancouver [...]
Halifax women’s shelter loses outreach services
HALIFAX – After many successful years, Halifax’s Bryony House will be discontinuing their outreach services for women and children fleeing domestic violence. The Department of Community Services, the main funder of transition houses in Nova Scotia, has not increased funding to Bryony House since an operational budget freeze in 1996.
Outreach services are provided by [...]
Blaming the Victim of Sexual Assault
Carleton University’s comments elicit grassroots response
CKDU News Collective
August 19, 2009
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HALIFAX – Carleton University’s recent comments towards a court case from 2007 has campuses across the country in an uproar.
A woman known only as ‘Jane Doe’ was sexually assaulted while working after hours in a lab on Carlton University campus. [...]
VOICES OF OUR NATIONS: Eight hour special broadcast
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VOICES of our NATIONS
First Annual Radio-a-thon
on CKDU 88.1 FM
Friday, July 3rd from midnight to 8 am
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There are over one million First Peoples, from dozens of nations, with dozens of languages, living in Canada.
The Voices of our Nations Radio-a-thon is the first-ever collaboration of Indigenous programmers from radio stations in all corners of the country.
Tune-in [...]
Local feminist activist responds to criticisms of shutdown of anti-choice event
On February 4th 2009, at least a dozen women and their allies shut down an event at Saint Mary’s University in Halifax entitled “Echoes of the Holocaust”, forcing its relocation to a church off campus. The talk, given by Jose Ruba of the Canadian Centre for Bio-Ethical Reform, was part of the Genocide Awareness Project, [...]
