Canadian feminist lawyer and women’s advocate
Although the official release date for my book is just over a week away — November 26th — copies of And Sometimes They Kill You are showing up on bookstore shelves, in newspaper articles, on television and in people’s hands. Continue reading Shameless self-promotion
On October 28th, less than a year after the federal government passed Bill C-48, which tightened up the Criminal Code provisions dealing with bail, Ontario’s government issued a media release calling on the feds to make “concrete changes that will Continue reading Going in circles
When Brkti Berhe was stabbed to death last week, Ottawa police did not waste any time in declaring the killing to be an act of femicide. The media release read: “[the killer] had a domestic violence relationship with a family Continue reading Making progress, slowly
Loving Spoonful (not to be confused with the 1960s band Lovin’ Spoonful) has long been one of my favourite not-for-profit organizations. It was founded in 2008 as a collaboration among social justice organizations in the Kingston area and initially housed Continue reading Crowded table