Canadian feminist lawyer and women’s advocate
On the first day of the CKW inquest, Malcolm Warmerdam, the son of one of the three women whose murders were under review, urged the jury not to think of the man who had killed his mother as a monster. Continue reading The circle is broken
As I wrote here in February, the House of Commons is considering whether or not to criminalize coercively controlling behaviours. Coercive control is an umbrella term that describes a pattern of behaviours – including psychological, financial and other forms of Continue reading To criminalize or not (part 2)
As I wrote last week, mandatory charging policies intended to protect survivors of intimate partner violence have proven to be highly problematic. Despite police training on domestic violence and attempts to ensure that they focus on identifying the primary aggressor, Continue reading Time for a review, part two
In October 2023, the federal government gave royal assent to Bill S-12, which made significant changes to how publication bans operate. As I wrote last year, these changes came about as the result of a growing number of situations in Continue reading Owning our stories, part three