Canadian feminist lawyer and women’s advocate
In San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, Take Back the Night is celebrated on International Women’s Day in March, rather than in September as is traditional in many parts of the world. On March 8, 2017, a sizeable contingent of Mexican, Continue reading Women unite to take back the night!
It seems that, in the context of sexual assault, the word “unfounded” means very different things to different people. Robyn Doolittle’s unprecedented series in The Globe and Mail earlier this year brought the word into the forefront of many people’s Continue reading The language game of sexual assault
Mandi Gray’s comment after Ontario Superior Court Justice Dambrot upheld the appeal of Mustafa Ururyar, who had been found guilty of sexually assaulting her, is a simple yet powerful indictment of the criminal system’s response to sexual violence. She went Continue reading “It really doesn’t matter what I want.”
The past couple of years have provided Canadians with more than ample opportunity to consider how Canadian judges handle sexual assault cases. Most notorious and best known, of course, was the trial of Jian Ghomeshi, a former icon of the Continue reading Sexual assault school for Canada’s judges?