Canadian feminist lawyer and women’s advocate
After following and commenting on the hockey player sexual assault trial earlier this year, which culminated last month in not-surprising acquittals for the five former Team Canada players who had been charged, I thought I could put hockey and sexual Continue reading A gap that didn’t need filling
It would be a mistake to dismiss the final report of the independent review into B.C.’s legal system’s treatment of intimate partner violence and sexual assault as just another list of recommendations that we’ve already heard before. While there are Continue reading “We know what to do”
I almost didn’t write this blog. Not because the recent decision in the hockey player sexual assault trial isn’t important, because it is. Not because it isn’t worthy of comment, because it is. Not because I don’t care, because I Continue reading What’s the point?
As I wrote about last week, there is talk of creating a stand-alone offence of femicide, in response to ongoing high rates of gender-based violence, including intimate partner violence (IPV) and homicide. (The OPP announced earlier this week that reports Continue reading Femicide as a stand-alone criminal offence? Part two