Canadian feminist lawyer and women’s advocate
Women continue to be killed in this country and around the world in alarming numbers. According to a 2023 report from UN Women, 51,100 women and girls were killed by someone “closely related to them” that year. In Canada, between Continue reading Femicide as a stand-alone criminal offence? Part one
As I discussed last week, determining what court has the jurisdiction to hear a family law case involving child-related issues depends on where the child is habitually resident, which is often a complicated question to answer. Consider the story of Continue reading Where do I live? (Part two)
To those of you whose lives are not enmeshed in family law, the question of where someone lives probably seems straightforward. We live where we – well – live. Obviously. Not in family law; and certainly not when the question Continue reading Where do I live?
Like many women, I have my own stories of sexual violence. Below is a lightly edited excerpt from my book, And Sometimes They Kill You: Confronting the Epidemic of Intimate Partner Violence, that tells one such story, which I am Continue reading Why don’t women report? (Part two: a personal story)