Canadian feminist lawyer and women’s advocate
Remember when turning 50, let alone 60 or 70 was unimaginable? My partner turned 75 last week, an event we celebrated by having a dinner party with 10 friends, four of whom are 80 and older, and guess what? We Continue reading Three-quarters of a century
I have never made a real career plan. When I was a kid, I wanted to be a lawyer, but life intervened, and I didn’t get to law school till I was in my mid-30s. I graduated from law school Continue reading New year, new directions
Dawn Walker’s decision last summer to take her child and disappear puts her in the good company of many mothers who find themselves facing criminal and family law systems that do not understand the realities of intimate partner abuse. It Continue reading No other choice
No one should die when they go to work. That includes police officers, like OPP Constable Grzegorz Pierzchala, who was killed while responding to a vehicle in a ditch on December 27th. My thoughts go out to his family, as Continue reading Whose deaths do we mourn?