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.”
Did Justin Trudeau attempt to influence then Justice Minister Jody Wilson-Raybould to intervene in the prosecution of SNC-Lavalin for corporate wrongdoing, as alleged in a Globe and Mail article in early February? Is that why she was shuffled from her Continue reading Sunny ways turn cloudy
There is a smooth flow to life in San Miguel, at least for those of us here as visitors. Somehow, no matter how much I fill up my calendar, there is an ease to all of it that I never Continue reading Of tai chi and tortillas
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