Canadian feminist lawyer and women’s advocate
As the Toronto Star recently reported, the external review of Legal Aid Ontario’s (LAO) deficit has now been completed. Many of you will remember that Ontario Attorney General Yasir Naqvi called for this review after LAO announced in December that Continue reading Fixing Legal Aid Ontario’s deficit: on whose backs?
(Mothers Day Proclamation 1870) Many of us who are mothers can remember lying in bed (as we had been sternly instructed to do the night before) on Mother’s Day morning, listening to the not-so-quiet kitchen sounds of preparations for our Continue reading Arise then . . . women of this day! Arise, all women who have hearts!
On May 1, 1886, more than 300,000 workers across the United States walked off the job to participate in the first May Day celebration. At the time, it was not uncommon for people to work 10 to 16 hours a Continue reading Death to luxurious idleness: from May Day 1886 to M’aider 2017
In its 2017 budget, released on April 27th, the government announced plans to provide the abortion pill free of cost to women in Ontario. This is a significant step forward, given the many barriers to accessing surgical abortion that exist Continue reading Free access to abortion pill an important step forward in Ontario