Rachel Giese

On voting for the spy bill, equality before the law and squaring personal views on women’s rights with party policy.

Parents aren't always equipped to talk to their kids about sex. With two provinces launching new sexual education programs this fall, let's hope teachers will be.

The debate may have been cancelled, but violence against women, pay equity and other so-called women's issues matter — and so do our votes.

As the recent backlash against Target shows, many parents wouldn't. Here's the real reason getting rid of gendered kids' departments terrifies people.

In her new novel, The Heart Goes Last, Atwood's characters are faced with a choice between freedom and security. We talked to the author about that age-old question, government snooping and what counts as normal nowadays.

In 2011, after she won a highly unlikely seat in the House of Commons, she was nicknamed “Vegas Girl” and dismissed as a bartending single mom. Nobody expected she’d be so darn competent.

Hackers threatened to expose the identity of the adultery site's users, arguing that they don’t deserve anonymity. Here’s why they do.

Safe, effective and effortless, the IUD is the gold standard of birth control — but only 3 percent of Canadian women use one. What gives?

Girls and women are stacking coins atop their collarbones to measure how skinny they are. Sound silly? It's not.

Revenge porn is one of the most vicious forms of online assault. But Google is making it a lot harder to spread sexual images of an ex without their consent.

The FIFA Women’s World Cup, currently underway across Canada, is the largest single-sport women’s event in the world. Too bad about the sexist comments, gender-verification testing and second-rate turf.

Since his 2008 apology to residential school survivors, Harper's record on Native issues has been abysmal. His government's greatest offense: its refusal to launch an inquiry into 1,200 missing and murdered Indigenous women.