Canadian feminist lawyer and women’s advocate
Last Thursday, when I spoke at the AGM of The Redwood — a women’s shelter celebrating 30 years of operation — was a hot and steamy day. The event was held in a community hub with no air conditioning and, Continue reading 30 years of serving women
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