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During the 1970s and 1980s, after the Royal Commission on the Status of Women made its far-reaching recommendations, the volunteer Ontario Committee on the Status of Women went head-to-head with th

Details the innovative, courageous, and creative activism of the "second wave" women's health movement in Canada between 1960 and 2010.

Montreal was the literary centre of Canada in the 1940s, a hotbed of literary activity in both English and French crowned by the international success of Hugh MacLennan's Two Solitudes and Gab

About one million years ago, when Homo Erectus decided to walk on two legs, he must have sensed that things would never be the same for him again - -that he could kiss his old ape habits goodbye.

Some people claim they'd like to walk away from their lives -- Shelley A. Leedahl had the nerve to do it. Was it selfishness, or self-preservation?

It's spring in Toronto and the Hollywood movie crews are back. This is where art meets commerce full force.

"May you live in interesting times." So goes the ancient Chinese curse. In Quebec, we are always living in "interesting" times.

What happens when a 56-year-old fiction writer decides to ditch it all and attend professional pastry chef school for a year?

After her marriage of 25 years ended badly, Linda Kenyon was determined to never put herself in the way of a broken heart again.

Out of Grief, Singing is an achingly beautiful account of how a woman comes to terms with the loss of her newborn.

In this award-winning collection from his Montreal Gazette city columns, Joe Fiorito reveals the true heart and soul of a large city.

In 2013, a violent crime left Jane Harris seriously injured and tumbling down the social ladder toward homelessness -- for the second time in her life -- leading her to question the underlying cond

In the aftermath of World War II, more than 4,500 Polish veterans, displaced by war and the Soviet-oriented Polish government, were resettled in Canada as farm workers; 750 of these men were accept

The verb esperar means to wait. It also means to hope.—“The Past Was a Small Notebook, Much Scribbled-Upon”, Cora Siré Waiting, that most human of experiences, saturates all of our lives.

In 1844, seven widows dared to cast ballots in an election in Canada West, a display of feminist effrontery that was quickly punished: the government struck a law excluding women from the vote.