Canadian feminist lawyer and women’s advocate
This article describes a violent rape and may not be for all readers. That said, it’s a story that raises important issues for all of us to think about. In 1991, a 28-year-old Calgary woman, at home with her toddler, Continue reading What should happen?
Salma al-Shebab travelled to Saudi Arabia from England, where she lives with her husband and two young children, in December 2020 to visit her family over the holiday season. She intended to be back in Leeds to resume her studies Continue reading Silenced voices
During the four days I spent at the Nova Scotia Mass Casualty Commission hearings last month, I listened to a number of panels of experts talking about intimate partner violence, and participated in one myself. So immersed was I in Continue reading Telling our stories
Hope has been in short supply lately, whether we look at the climate crisis, the unhoused in some of Canada’s richest cities, the opioid epidemic, gender-based violence or, particularly south of the border, reproductive choice. My time with the Renfrew Continue reading Where’s the hope?