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GEORGIE BINKS

Modern living

Dating tips for Barbara Amiel
Dec. 20, 2007
The challenges faced by the transgendered
November 20, 2007
You're driving me crazy
October 29, 2007
Racist or Realistic?
October 1, 2007
Choice predicament
Sept. 8, 2007
The kids are all right when they're busy
July 24, 2007
Professional wrestling not so much fun and fake, as frightening
June 29, 2007
Where the cameras have no business
May 24, 2007
To guys who took a chance
May 1, 2007
Black hole for male hotties
March 22, 2007
Being loved
Feb. 13, 2007
Let men have equal rights to separate spaces
January 26, 2007
Shopping hell
December 13, 2006
Baby boom pot smokers' principles up in smoke
Novemeber 25, 2006
How do you dismantle the nuclear family?
October 17, 2006
Pink ribbon blues
September 16, 2006
Celebrity Stalking: Stop the Madness
September 8, 2006
Motherhood Boring? Say It's Not So!
August 24, 2006
Mel's Hell
August 11, 2006
Supreme Court ruling won't ensure fair child support
August 1, 2006
Not just a female problem
July 28, 2006
Money equals power when it comes to housework
July 20, 2006
Women vs. culture
July 10, 2006
No fault doesn't mean no responsibility
June 30, 2006
An ode to dear old - and new - dads
June 16, 2006
Domestic Abuse: It's time everyone starts watching
June 12, 2006
Don't stand so close to me
June 5, 2006
Jocks around the clock
May 26, 2006
A mother's work is always done
May 12, 2006
Brothels near World Cup soccer stadiums cause furor
May 8, 2006
The real problem with kids and computers
April 28, 2006
Live the Fuller life
April 21, 2006
Parents have big role to play in curfews
April 7, 2006
Sexual harassment burns male firefighters
March 31, 2006
When Metallica is your mid-life crisis
March 27, 2006
Violence by girls uncool
March 17, 2006
Let's kick tobacco companies in the butt
March 13, 2006
Troubled teen therapy: What are we doing to our youth?
March 3, 2006
Wrestling with late term abortions
February 24, 2006
Making a move
February 13, 2006
Don't delete. This could save your life
February 3, 2006
Stephen Harper may be the best thing to happen to the women's movement
January 24, 2006
The in-between world of a political spouse
January 20, 2006
How can Canadian parents ever expect child care, when politicians still don’t get it
January 13, 2006
Hanging on to 'Toronto's pavement'
January 4, 2006
Now that we have everything else how about a little spirituality
December 23, 2005
Taking it all off, even if you don't want to
December 12, 2005
What are men saying?
December 9, 2005
Too many fatherless children
December 2, 2005
Hazing: Since when does humiliation equal bonding?
November 4, 2005
Boys aren't just bad girls
October 27, 2005
Where the boys aren't
October 19, 2005
Men's warmth chilling to women
August 12, 2005
Is music any different when a woman plays it?
July 29, 2005
Good Catholic girls don't...
July 22, 2005
Women have been 'waiting' too long
July 15, 2005
Hearty stews, but never a beefcake
July 8, 2005
Finally saying thank you to Henry Morgentaler
June 24, 2005
Why men love to fan the flames
June 17, 2005
Pretty girls get the breaks
June 10, 2005
It's a Pain. Period
June 6, 2005
Ambition isn't a dirty word, Belinda
May 18, 2005
Safe sex is a woman's issue
May 13, 2005
Why motherhood has made me more of a feminist
May 6, 2005
Sex and the Catholic Church
April 29, 2005
No one hands you your rights
April 22, 2005
Does equality equal power and money?
April 15, 2005
Charles and Camilla
April 8, 2005
Having a baby is no breeze
April 1, 2005
It's a smooth world
March 25, 2005
That'll be five bucks for you, and six for the lady
March 18, 2005
Treating Anger in Men
March 11, 2005
The new generation gap
March 4, 2005
If you want to win women back, you have to start figuring out how they want to play the game
Feb. 25, 2005
Does anyone know or even care what makes women tick (and even scream)?
February 18, 2005
When one lover isn't enough
February 11, 2005
What's the score? Does no hockey mean more action?
February 4, 2005
Do we need chaperones?
January 28, 2005
When the guys just don't want you
January 21, 2005
Volunteering
January 14, 2004
Keeping up with the guys
January 7, 2004
Dying to be pretty
December 31, 2004
You can't regift love
December 24, 2004
Parents in crisis
December 17, 2004
Parent like a mother when they're little, a father when they are older
December 10, 2004
Brash or brave?
December 3, 2004
Let the women score
November 26, 2004
Self-esteem and early sex
November 18, 2004
Some car dealers still driving women crazy
November 12, 2004
Booby-trapped: breastfeeding in public is still a battle
November 5, 2004
Maybe it's you, not her
October 27, 2004
MAN-uals: guides to finding, training and eventually owning one (a man, that is)
October 15, 2004
The truth about beauty
October 8, 2004
The Cost of Sex
September 30, 2004
So unkind, house arrest for Dar Heatherington
September 20, 2004
Women's magazines: improving our wardrobe or our brain?
September 10, 2004
Some Kind of Monster: When Macho Men Look Inward
July 29, 2004
If men could talk
July 16, 2004
Going Back to Work (For Money and Holidays)
July 5, 2004
I now pronounce you man and woman
June 25, 2004
Fathering from home
June 16, 2004
For Canadian women some things just aren't on the table
June 9, 2004
Has child care finally become the nation's business?
June 3, 2004
Getting more women out of 'house', and into the 'House.'
May 31, 2004
Women don't throw rocks at men
May 21, 2004
It's OK to laugh now
May 11, 2004
No more perfect mothers
May 3, 2004
Delaying the choice
April 23, 2004
Men and women not on the same page
April 19, 2004
Men living at home
April 8, 2004
It really only matters if you're skinny
April 1, 2004
Sex and the City
March 25, 2004
Editing Ourselves
March 17, 2004
International Women's Day: Legally doomed
March 8, 2004
Have the laws of the jungle changed?
February 27, 2004
What happened to girl power? Are teenage girls blowing it?
February 17, 2004
Learning to like the driver's seat
February 11, 2004
Do love and marriage really go together anymore?
January 30, 2004
Are guys the new girls?
January 23, 2004
Name change tradition changes slowly
January 13, 2004
Barbie's still not for boys
January 1, 2004
She shoots, she scores
December 19, 2003
Women and shopping
December 9, 2003
Christmas is a female thing
December 3, 2003
The politics of paying
November 24, 2003
A room of one's own
November 17, 2003
Women overlooking short men
November 10, 2003
How the internet is killing real relationships
November 3, 2003
Sex objects at any age
October 27, 2003
Female Viagra found in woman's cleaning closet
October 20, 2003
Backlash in media manworld
October 10, 2003
Are older women invisible?
October 3, 2003
Levelling with our daughters about 'billable' hours
September 25, 2003

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ABOUT THIS AUTHOR

Biography

Georgie Binks is a freelance writer living in Toronto. She has a B.A. (Hons)in British history from Queen's University. She writes for a number of newspapers and magazines including the Globe and Mail, Toronto Star and National Post, as well as Chatelaine, More, Homemakers, Elle, Glow, Style at Home, Together and www.salon.com. Georgie is a former CBC radio and television reporter and editor.

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