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September 29, 2010
Prostitution in court
The federal Conservatives are appealing yesterday’s Ontario Superior Court ruling that struck down parts of Canada’s prostitution laws. Mary Shearman, an SFU doctoral student in the department of gender, sexuality and women’s studies (GSWS), is researching women and sexual labour, focusing primarily on the experiences of dancers in nightclubs. She is available to provide her thoughts on yesterday’s ruling, which says laws banning a common bawdy house for trading sexual favours endanger its workers.
Mary Shearman, 604.561.8416; mshearma@sfu.ca
Stepping up addiction attention
Bruce Alexander, an SFU psychology professor emeritus, and Gabor Mate, a physician and SFU grad, differ on addictions’ root causes but the two are passionate about society’s need to deal with them. Both authors of award winning books on addiction, they’ll go head to head in a free public dialogue on Monday, Oct. 4 at 7:30 p.m. about how we should deal with many forms of addiction. Sponsored by From Grief to Action, a support group for parents with addicted children, the talk will be at St. Mary’s Kerrisdale Church at 2490 West 37th Ave. http://www.fgta.ca/news_events.php?view=event®ion=1&id=87
Bruce Alexander, 604.253.2046; alexande@sfu.ca
Joyce Locht, From Grief to Action, 604.614.9915; joyce.locht@gmail.com
Gandhi advocates discuss Middle East
Two long time political activists - 2010 recipients of the 20th annual Thakore award - will present a lecture on how Gandhi’s and Mandela’s peaceful political activism could help heal Middle East upheaval. Heribert Adam, SFU professor emeritus of sociology, and Kogila Moodley, UBC professor emeritus of education, will deliver Reconciliation in Deeply Divided Societies during their award presentation on Sunday, Oct. 3 at 7:30 p.m. The presentation takes place at SFU Vancouver’s Fletcher Challenge Theatre at Harbour Centre.
Heribert Adam, 604.228.8369, 250.629.6229; adam@sfu.ca
Jerry Zaslove, SFU Humanities, 604.928.9846 (cell)
Women and the news
An international report released today shows that despite “modest gains” in world news media portrayal, women are still “significantly underrepresented” in news media coverage. Seventy-six per cent of those heard or read about in the world’s news are male. The report by the Global Media Monitoring Project (GMMP) monitored nearly 18,000 news stories focusing on more than 38,000 people in the news in 108 countries. SFU communication lecturer Kathleen Cross coordinated the Canadian GMMP research, which tracked nearly 300 stories and 700 individuals in the news. Among highlights, women are rarely used as knowledgeable experts (only one in five), less than nine per cent of Canadian news stories have women as a central focus (13 per cent internationally), and women reporters were least likely to report on topics dominating the news agenda (male journalists being twice as likely to report on these).
The report Who Makes the News? The Global Media Monitoring Project 2010 was released today along with the Canadian National Report and numerous other regional and national reports.
Kathleen Cross, 778.782.3861; 604.868.7568 (cell); kcross@sfu.ca
The federal Conservatives are appealing yesterday’s Ontario Superior Court ruling that struck down parts of Canada’s prostitution laws. Mary Shearman, an SFU doctoral student in the department of gender, sexuality and women’s studies (GSWS), is researching women and sexual labour, focusing primarily on the experiences of dancers in nightclubs. She is available to provide her thoughts on yesterday’s ruling, which says laws banning a common bawdy house for trading sexual favours endanger its workers.
Mary Shearman, 604.561.8416; mshearma@sfu.ca
Stepping up addiction attention
Bruce Alexander, an SFU psychology professor emeritus, and Gabor Mate, a physician and SFU grad, differ on addictions’ root causes but the two are passionate about society’s need to deal with them. Both authors of award winning books on addiction, they’ll go head to head in a free public dialogue on Monday, Oct. 4 at 7:30 p.m. about how we should deal with many forms of addiction. Sponsored by From Grief to Action, a support group for parents with addicted children, the talk will be at St. Mary’s Kerrisdale Church at 2490 West 37th Ave. http://www.fgta.ca/news_events.php?view=event®ion=1&id=87
Bruce Alexander, 604.253.2046; alexande@sfu.ca
Joyce Locht, From Grief to Action, 604.614.9915; joyce.locht@gmail.com
Gandhi advocates discuss Middle East
Two long time political activists - 2010 recipients of the 20th annual Thakore award - will present a lecture on how Gandhi’s and Mandela’s peaceful political activism could help heal Middle East upheaval. Heribert Adam, SFU professor emeritus of sociology, and Kogila Moodley, UBC professor emeritus of education, will deliver Reconciliation in Deeply Divided Societies during their award presentation on Sunday, Oct. 3 at 7:30 p.m. The presentation takes place at SFU Vancouver’s Fletcher Challenge Theatre at Harbour Centre.
Heribert Adam, 604.228.8369, 250.629.6229; adam@sfu.ca
Jerry Zaslove, SFU Humanities, 604.928.9846 (cell)
Women and the news
An international report released today shows that despite “modest gains” in world news media portrayal, women are still “significantly underrepresented” in news media coverage. Seventy-six per cent of those heard or read about in the world’s news are male. The report by the Global Media Monitoring Project (GMMP) monitored nearly 18,000 news stories focusing on more than 38,000 people in the news in 108 countries. SFU communication lecturer Kathleen Cross coordinated the Canadian GMMP research, which tracked nearly 300 stories and 700 individuals in the news. Among highlights, women are rarely used as knowledgeable experts (only one in five), less than nine per cent of Canadian news stories have women as a central focus (13 per cent internationally), and women reporters were least likely to report on topics dominating the news agenda (male journalists being twice as likely to report on these).
The report Who Makes the News? The Global Media Monitoring Project 2010 was released today along with the Canadian National Report and numerous other regional and national reports.
Kathleen Cross, 778.782.3861; 604.868.7568 (cell); kcross@sfu.ca