Canadian feminist lawyer and women’s advocate
Tomorrow is Hogmanay, the custom-laden Scottish new year’s eve. While some of my genetic background is Scottish – it is said that the Flora MacDonald who smuggled Bonnie Prince Charlie out of Scotland in 1746 was a distant relative of Continue reading Goodbye 2022
My youngest sister – 10 years my junior – and I, comparing notes some years ago after one of us had had a particularly challenging exchange with Bell Canada, realized that we both had developed what we labelled our “Bell Continue reading The Bell voice
Recommendation 19 from the CKW inquest calls for the establishment of an emergency fund to support women living with intimate partner violence (IPV) who are taking steps to seek safety. The proposed name of the fund — in honour of Continue reading Yes, we C.A.N.
Some years, December 6th – the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women – seems harder than others. This is one of those years. The massacre of 14 women at Ecole Polytechnique– what we would now call Continue reading December 6, 2022: remember & act