“I hate feminists,” screamed Mark Lepine to a classroom full of students at the Ecole Polytechnique in 1989. Lepine then instructed the 25 men in the class to leave and proceeded to shoot the 28 remaining women killing 14 of them.
“Almost cut my hair, it happened just the other day,” Scarborough resident Larry Kosowan sang, playing his acoustic steel-string guitar. But he did cut his hair. All 12 inches of his flowing, dark brown locks. Kosowan had been growing out his hair for the past three years to have it long enough to cut and donate to the Canadian Cancer Society (CCS).
Check out a seminar at the Scarborough Women’s Centre that focuses on dealing with debt. It happens on Jan. 30, 2012 at 7:00 p.m.
Attend “First Impressions” by Alyssa Muzaffar, a seminar that teaches people how to manage their communication and online presence as well as creating a good first impression on Tues., Jan. 31, 2012 at 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.
Cedarbrae library and the Scarborough Women’s Centre have forged a relationship to help area youth open up about theirs. The library is set to welcome teens age 15–19 on Oct. 13 at 4 p.m. to Relationships 101, a Young Women’s Outreach workshop.
What a woman needs to succeed is other women, say the users of the Scarborough Women’s Centre (SWC). SWC is a non-profit resource centre that has helped Scarborough women overcome hardship for almost 30 years. On Sept. 29, the centre held its 29th annual meeting to discuss its way forward.