Canadian feminist lawyer and women’s advocate
It’s pretty easy to become so caught up in our daily activities that we don’t take the time to just slow down for a few minutes and appreciate what is around us. I am very guilty of this: there is Continue reading Taking a moment
When the Ontario Provincial Police announced, in late September, that it would no longer identify the gender of victims and accused people, Sgt. Carolle Dionne said: “It doesn’t matter if it was a male or a female who was an Continue reading Missing the point
Many of us grew up steeped in a version of the first Thanksgiving that was created south of the border: pilgrims and “Indians” sitting down together to share a fall harvest meal; peace and harmony apparently the order of the Continue reading Truth, reconciliation and Thanksgiving
Early this summer, I introduced Mik’maw lawyer Pam Palmater’s Reconciliation Book Club. My partner and I headed into the first assigned reading with enthusiasm and interest, and we were not disappointed. Whose Land Is It Anyway: A Manual for Decolonization” Continue reading “There is no middle ground”