Canadian feminist lawyer and women’s advocate
Almost a year has passed since the implementation of significant revisions to the parenting provisions in Canada’s Divorce Act. The changes include new language, a detailed definition of family violence, and a list of 11 criteria to guide courts when Continue reading Best for kids and mums
A lot of changes are needed to make the family law/court system work for survivors of family violence and their children. One of the first is for the system to stop treating violence within families as though it is a Continue reading What about the men?
In 1927, section 24 of the British North America Act – at the time, Canada’s Constitution and therefore its highest law – said that only “qualified persons” could be appointed to the Senate. Until this time, the government had interpreted Continue reading Iron in our souls
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?