Canadian feminist lawyer and women’s advocate
Maybe it’s just the heat, but I am having a hard time feeling positive about much of anything right now. I realize the climate crisis is more serious than my discomfort from the hot weather – honestly, I do – Continue reading Confessions of a heat hater
When my partner and I handed off our 10-year-old grandson to his father late Saturday afternoon, we collapsed onto our couch and sat, entirely still and silent, for quite some time, utterly exhausted by our week of adventures with him. Continue reading Family vacations
Intimate partner violence (IPV), including femicide, is nothing new. A recent book, The Castleton Massacre, explores a little-known case of long-term IPV that ended in a multiple femicide in a small Ontario town in 1963. At that time, IPV was Continue reading Changing the discourse
A three-week inquest, a major house renovation that took much longer than we had anticipated and left us begging around town for showers for several weeks, and a quick trip to Halifax for the Mass Casualty Commission hearings might have Continue reading Vacation time!