Canadian feminist lawyer and women’s advocate
When I met the members of Malvern Collegiate’s Young Women’s Empowerment Group (known by insiders as Y-WEG) a few weeks ago, there was no doubt they fully endorsed the lyrics of Cyndi Lauper’s signature song, which was written long before Continue reading Girls just wanna have fun!
All elections are important, but the 2018 provincial election in Ontario seems especially significant. Three parties – the Greens, the NDP and the Liberals – while holding different values and putting forward different platforms – offer us the opportunity to Continue reading Election 2018: What’s at stake?
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?
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?