Canadian feminist lawyer and women’s advocate
On February 10th, the government of Ontario, the Office of the Chief Coroner and the Information and Privacy Commissioner provided their responses to many of the 86 recommendations made by the jury in the June 2022 inquest into the September Continue reading We still remember
Dawn Walker’s decision last summer to take her child and disappear puts her in the good company of many mothers who find themselves facing criminal and family law systems that do not understand the realities of intimate partner abuse. It Continue reading No other choice
No one should die when they go to work. That includes police officers, like OPP Constable Grzegorz Pierzchala, who was killed while responding to a vehicle in a ditch on December 27th. My thoughts go out to his family, as Continue reading Whose deaths do we mourn?
Recommendation 19 from the CKW inquest calls for the establishment of an emergency fund to support women living with intimate partner violence (IPV) who are taking steps to seek safety. The proposed name of the fund — in honour of Continue reading Yes, we C.A.N.