Canadian feminist lawyer and women’s advocate
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?
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