Canadian feminist lawyer and women’s advocate
Many of us have spent uncountable hours over the past 18 months staring at the faces of our friends, family, colleagues and clients in small Zoom boxes. We’ve also, often, been staring at our own face at the same time. Continue reading Facing off
These words, from a student at Western University last week, should serve as a powerful and plaintive reminder that we need to do more — much more — to end the rape culture prevalent at post-secondary institutions in this country. Continue reading “Who’s to say it can’t happen to me?”
It is the simplicity of meals that most appeals to me at this time of year. Complex meals, delicious as they are, better suit the months when we don’t have an abundance of fresh foods at our doorstep. My partner Continue reading ‘Tis a gift to be simple
Victor Kosakovsky’s newest film, Gunda, opens with a sow giving birth to a litter of piglets. Neither she nor the newborn pigs have any doubt about her parentage of them: they scramble and scrabble to latch onto her teats within Continue reading What makes a legal parent?