Canadian feminist lawyer and women’s advocate
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
Seven days into the 16 days of activism to end gender-based violence, we know that 52 women and girls in Ontario were killed by men in the past 52 weeks. These are not random killings: approximately 75% of the time, Continue reading Seven days in