Georgie Binks - Modern Living
Georgie Binks is a freelance writer living in Toronto. She is a graduate of Queen's University and writes for the Toronto Star, National Post, and Chatelaine. She has written for the Globe and Mail, Homemakers, Elle, Glow and Style at Home, as well as salon.com. Georgie is a former CBC radio and television reporter and editor.
COLUMNS BY GEORGIE BINKS:
September 16, 2006
Pink ribbon blues
September 8, 2006
Celebrity Stalking: Stop the Madness
August 24, 2006
Motherhood Boring? Say It's Not So!
August 11, 2006
Mel's Hell
August 1, 2006
Supreme Court ruling won't ensure fair child support
July 28, 2006
Not just a female problem
July 20, 2006
Money equals power when it comes to housework
July 10, 2006
Women vs. culture
June 30, 2006
No fault doesn't mean no responsibility
June 16, 2006
An ode to dear old - and new - dads
June 12, 2006
Domestic Abuse: It's time everyone starts watching
June 5, 2006
Don't stand so close to me
May 26, 2006
Jocks around the clock
May 12, 2006
A mother's work is always done
May 8, 2006
Brothels near World Cup soccer stadiums cause furor
April 28, 2006
The real problem with kids and computers
April 21, 2006
Live the Fuller life
April 7, 2006
Parents have big role to play in curfews
March 31, 2006
Sexual harassment burns male firefighters
March 27, 2006
When Metallica is your mid-life crisis
March 17, 2006
Violence by girls uncool
March 13, 2006
Let's kick tobacco companies in the butt
March 3, 2006
Troubled teen therapy: What are we doing to our youth?
February 24, 2006
Wrestling with late term abortions
February 13, 2006
Making a move
February 3, 2006
Don't delete. This could save your life
January 24, 2006
Stephen Harper may be the best thing to happen to the women's movement
January 20, 2006
The in-between world of a political spouse
January 13, 2006
How can Canadian parents ever expect child care, when politicians still don’t get it
January 4, 2006
Hanging on to 'Toronto's pavement'
December 23, 2005
Now that we have everything else how about a little spirituality
December 12, 2005
Taking it all off, even if you don't want to
December 9, 2005
What are men saying?
December 2, 2005
Too many fatherless children
November 4, 2005
Hazing: Since when does humiliation equal bonding?
October 27, 2005
Boys aren't just bad girls
October 19, 2005
Where the boys aren't
August 12, 2005
Men's warmth chilling to women
July 29, 2005
Is music any different when a woman plays it?
July 22, 2005
Good Catholic girls don't...
July 15, 2005
Women have been 'waiting' too long
July 8, 2005
Hearty stews, but never a beefcake
June 24, 2005
Finally saying thank you to Henry Morgentaler
June 17, 2005
Why men love to fan the flames
June 10, 2005
Pretty girls get the breaks
June 6, 2005
It's a Pain. Period
May 18, 2005
Ambition isn't a dirty word, Belinda
May 13, 2005
Safe sex is a woman's issue
May 6, 2005
Why motherhood has made me more of a feminist
April 29, 2005
Sex and the Catholic Church
April 22, 2005
No one hands you your rights
April 15, 2005
Does equality equal power and money?
April 8, 2005
Charles and Camilla
April 1, 2005
Having a baby is no breeze
March 25, 2005
It's a smooth world
March 18, 2005
That'll be five bucks for you, and six for the lady
March 11, 2005
Treating Anger in Men
March 4, 2005
The new generation gap
Feb. 25, 2005
If you want to win women back, you have to start figuring out how they want to play the game
February 18, 2005
Does anyone know or even care what makes women tick (and even scream)?
February 11, 2005
When one lover isn't enough
February 4, 2005
What's the score? Does no hockey mean more action?
January 28, 2005
Do we need chaperones?
January 21, 2005
When the guys just don't want you
January 14, 2004
Volunteering
January 7, 2004
Keeping up with the guys
December 31, 2004
Dying to be pretty
December 24, 2004
You can't regift love
December 17, 2004
Parents in crisis
December 10, 2004
Parent like a mother when they're little, a father when they are older
December 3, 2004
Brash or brave?
November 26, 2004
Let the women score
November 18, 2004
Self-esteem and early sex
November 12, 2004
Some car dealers still driving women crazy
November 5, 2004
Booby-trapped: breastfeeding in public is still a battle
October 27, 2004
Maybe it's you, not her
October 15, 2004
MAN-uals: guides to finding, training and eventually owning one (a man, that is)
October 8, 2004
The truth about beauty
September 30, 2004
The Cost of Sex
September 20, 2004
So unkind, house arrest for Dar Heatherington
September 10, 2004
Women's magazines: improving our wardrobe or our brain?
July 29, 2004
Some Kind of Monster: When Macho Men Look Inward
July 16, 2004
If men could talk
July 5, 2004
Going Back to Work (For Money and Holidays)
June 25, 2004
I now pronounce you man and woman
June 16, 2004
Fathering from home
June 9, 2004
For Canadian women some things just aren't on the table
June 3, 2004
Has child care finally become the nation's business?
May 31, 2004
Getting more women out of 'house', and into the 'House.'
May 21, 2004
Women don't throw rocks at men
May 11, 2004
It's OK to laugh now
May 3, 2004
No more perfect mothers
April 23, 2004
Delaying the choice
April 19, 2004
Men and women not on the same page
April 8, 2004
Men living at home
April 1, 2004
It really only matters if you're skinny
March 25, 2004
Sex and the City
March 17, 2004
Editing Ourselves
March 8, 2004
International Women's Day: Legally doomed
February 27, 2004
Have the laws of the jungle changed?
February 17, 2004
What happened to girl power? Are teenage girls blowing it?
February 11, 2004
Learning to like the driver's seat
January 30, 2004
Do love and marriage really go together anymore?
January 23, 2004
Are guys the new girls?
January 13, 2004
Name change tradition changes slowly
January 1, 2004
Barbie's still not for boys
December 19, 2003
She shoots, she scores
December 9, 2003
Women and shopping
December 3, 2003
Christmas is a female thing
November 24, 2003
The politics of paying
November 17, 2003
A room of one's own
November 10, 2003
Women overlooking short men
November 3, 2003
How the internet is killing real relationships
October 27, 2003
Sex objects at any age
October 20, 2003
Female Viagra found in woman's cleaning closet
October 10, 2003
Backlash in media manworld
October 3, 2003
Are older women invisible?
September 25, 2003
Levelling with our daughters about 'billable' hours
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