Canadian feminist lawyer and women’s advocate
The sexual assault trial earlier this year of five former members of Canada’s national junior hockey team focused attention across the country on sexual violence as well as on hockey culture. Many of us who work with survivors and victims Continue reading Taking back the night
Women continue to be killed in this country and around the world in alarming numbers. According to a 2023 report from UN Women, 51,100 women and girls were killed by someone “closely related to them” that year. In Canada, between Continue reading Femicide as a stand-alone criminal offence? Part one
On October 28th, less than a year after the federal government passed Bill C-48, which tightened up the Criminal Code provisions dealing with bail, Ontario’s government issued a media release calling on the feds to make “concrete changes that will Continue reading Going in circles
In July, I wrote about the importance of expert witnesses in sexual assault trials. I referred specifically to the appeal by musician Jacob Hoggard, in which his lawyers argued that the trial judge improperly allowed expert evidence to be heard Continue reading Unappealing decision