Canadian feminist lawyer and women’s advocate
It’s easy, living in Doug Ford’s Ontario, to forget that positive change is possible. The five years since he was first elected – which seem agonizingly longer than that – have brought us one bad news story after another. The Continue reading Reason to hope
In an important 2022 case—Ahluwalia vs Ahluwalia — Ontario Superior Court Justice Mandhane recognized a new tort of family violence. She awarded the wife $150,000 in damages for the pattern of physical and coercive controlling abuse she had been subjected Continue reading A disappointing decision
A year ago yesterday, the jury in the CKW inquest returned its verdict, which included 86 recommendations for change to address the issue of intimate partner violence, especially femicide, in rural communities. Most of the recommendations – 68 of them Continue reading Righteous rage
Imagine this: your life partner and the father of your children subjects you to abuse, including sexual violence. You make the difficult decision to leave him and report his violence to the police, who charge him with sexual assault. You Continue reading Owning our stories, part two