Canadian feminist lawyer and women’s advocate
There is something about Mothers’ Day that can make a woman who has decided not to have children feel lacking in some essential way. After all, don’t all women want to be mothers? As Jody Day, author of a self-help Continue reading What? No children?
Canada’s first federal prison for women opened in Kingston in 1934. Known by most simply as P4W, it housed women who had received federal sentences (any sentence over two years long) from across the country and was part of the Continue reading Gone but not forgotten
As I raced against the clock to complete my tax return by the April 30th deadline, I was reminded that, while I make a reasonable income, many women do not. The wage gap between women and men remains pretty much Continue reading Money, money, money . . .
Labelling acts of violence “terrorist attacks” has become almost automatic in recent years. The phrase is pulled out at the drop of a hat to describe events that, while violent, are not always acts of terrorism. Once the words “terrorist” Continue reading Is misogyny terrorism?