Canadian feminist lawyer and women’s advocate
So ended Jody Wilson-Raybould’s (JWR) opening statement to the Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights on February 27th. JWR began as powerfully as she ended, by telling members of the committee, the media and a packed committee room: “For Continue reading “This is who I am and who I will always be.”
In 2010, London, Ontario, school teacher Ryan Jarvis was caught taking photos of female students’ breasts using a pen camera. He was charged with voyeurism. In 2015, a trial court judge acquitted him; an acquittal that was upheld by the Continue reading When a pen is more than a pen
In late January, Kingston was the centre of a major “terrorist” story. I live in Kingston; in fact, just a few blocks from one of the houses raided in the investigation. This was certainly the closest I had ever come Continue reading Just who do we call a terrorist?
Those of us who feel as though we have been living in perpetual election anticipation and/or recovery deserve to be forgiven. After all, in the past couple of years, we have lived through an American presidential election with shocking results, Continue reading Election time (again!)