While on the job she met author and Maclean's editor Peter C. Newman who, in 1976, made her his principal researcher for his book The Bronfman Dynasty (McClelland & Stewart).
WAVAW went on to focus on several actions, including erecting an alternative cenotaph on Remembrance Day acknowledging “Every Woman Raped In Every War.” Cole's anti-pornography activism triggered her public speaking career, as she travelled across Canada to talk about pornography.
She published Pornography and the Sex Crisis (Second Story)[2] in 1988, which encapsulated her point of view and which expanded her speaking engagements, including a series of debates on college campuses with Al Goldstein, editor of Screw.
[7] During that time she was a participant and early organizer of Nightwood's 5-Minute Feminist Cabaret, where, in 1988, she performed a monologue about her experience with her lesbian partner Leslie of trying to conceive a child.
In the late 1970s, Cole was the co-founder of the Toronto all-women's band, Mama Quilla II, alongside musicians such as Lorraine Segato and Lauri Conger.
Mama Quilla II later evolved into Parachute Club, but Cole was not part of the new group, instead going on to play piano and write songs for No Frills with Sherry Shute, Catherine Mackay and Evelyne Datl.
Coal can be heard weekly on Toronto radio on CFMJ, where she sits on the Media and the Message panel on John Oakley's show every Thursday morning.
She contributes a column to the feminist quarterly Herizons and can be read every week in NOW Cole began writing for NOW in the early 80s, and took a regular part-time job as a headline writer in 1988.