Canadian feminist lawyer and women’s advocate
Last week, the final report of the Nova Scotia Mass Casualty Commission, entitled Turning the Tide Together, was released. The Commission was an independent public inquiry convened by the federal government and the government of Nova Scotia in October 2020 Continue reading Declaring hard truths
Almost exactly a year ago, I wrote here about a groundbreaking family court decision, in which Justice Mandhane of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice recognized a new family law tort of family violence and awarded the wife in the Continue reading Our day in court
No more than a day or two goes by without another news story about a woman being killed by her partner or former partner. The stories are so frequent that, I suspect, many people’s eyes just glaze over as they Continue reading “Novel & aspirational”
While I sat in the family lounge on the cardiac floor of KGH a few weeks ago waiting for my partner to emerge from bypass surgery, my mind turned to possible worst case scenarios. I am known for this among Continue reading Without fear