Canadian feminist lawyer and women’s advocate
Last September, a Quebec court ruled that Canada’s medical assistance in dying (MAID) legislation was too restrictive because it limited eligibility to people whose deaths were reasonably foreseeable. The decision gave the federal government until March 11, 2020, to change Continue reading Urgent! Have your say
My partner and I recently spent a few days in Montreal with friends, where we stumbled on The Inca, Treasures of Peru, a visiting exhibit at the Musee Pointe a Calliere. This beautiful exhibit contained several rooms filled with artifacts Continue reading Earth to earth
When I was in law school in the early 1990s, I wrote a paper on the criminalization of pregnant women who were addicted to illegal drugs. I was horrified to learn that there were virtually no treatment facilities for pregnant Continue reading “Better than morphine”
When my partner and I recently made a quick stop at Costco (yes, such a thing is possible if you arrive right when the doors open in the morning and stick to your grocery list), we were struck, not for Continue reading 2020 commitments