It is hard to find words to describe the sense of immense, almost otherworldly joy that has enraptured Egyptians here in Canada who witnessed the miracle that unfolded over the course of the Egyptian revolution, and came to ecstatic fruition Friday evening. Over those 18 days, as we watched minute by minute, hour by hour, as the Egypt that we and our parents left behind shook off the debris of the Mubarak dictatorship to re-emerge with its eyes open, determined, proud, joyous.

Tucked deep within the latest federal budget is a tiny phrase that has aroused profound nation-wide alarm: "Scholarships granted by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council [SSHRC] will be focused on business-related degrees."

On December 10 of last year, a young Toronto woman was murdered in her home by her father.

The force of this tragedy was deepened by details of the violence of her early death and by the dozens of photos that flooded print media, television, blogs and facebook groups of her beaming adolescent face. It soon emerged that the murder victim, Aqsa Parvez, born in Canada of Pakistani parents, had suffered abuse by her father for years, and that when he realized his inability to control her movement and choices, he decided instead to end her life.

With the U.S. presidential race verging on the homestretch, and the Canadian federal election looming just a few days away, many Canadians are watching anxiously as the ballasts of conservative/Conservative power rear their collective head (to use a bit of Palinesque parlance).

It would be a shame, then, if the other big news story of this coming weekend were to be eclipsed: the Waves of Resistance/Toujours RebELLES Pan-Canadian Young Feminist Conference taking place from October 11-13 in Montreal.