Canadian feminist lawyer and women’s advocate
Considering that Basil Borutski has not spoken publicly since his interview with the police and the letter he wrote to the Ottawa Citizen two years ago, his voice was loud and very present in the first few days of his Continue reading Borutski trial part two: Whose voices will be heard?
The long-awaited trial of Basil Borutski, charged just over two years ago with first-degree murder in the Renfrew County killings of Carol Culleton, Anastasia Kuzyk and Nathalie Warmerdam, got underway in Ottawa on Monday October 2nd. The trial, expected to Continue reading Borutski trial part one: how it will unfold
These are the words a 16-year-old woman used to describe how she felt when she attended a party in the Queen’s University student district with friends in October 2015. It was not how she felt by the end of the Continue reading “I thought I was safe”
In the case of sexual assault, yes, or at least the numbers can fail to tell the whole story. Admittedly, trying to draw meaningful truth from any statistics is a fool’s game. Nonetheless, I found myself pouring over Statistics Canada’s Continue reading Can numbers lie?