Canadian feminist lawyer and women’s advocate
The Renfrew County Courthouse, located in Pembroke, is a beautiful mix of old and new, with modern offices and courtrooms encased in the shell of the original courthouse, built in the 1860s. The County Atlas of 1881 called it “one Continue reading Borutski trial part nine: the sentence
When my then 37-year-old daughter (Skate At Home Mom to her derby fans) and her friend, LaVallee of the Dolls, started Kingston’s first roller derby in 2010, I initially wondered where I, as a feminist mother, had gone wrong. What Continue reading Women’s empowerment and roller derby
It is now 28 years since Marc Lepine gunned down 14 women at L’Ecole Polytechnique in Montreal simply because they were women. As each year passes, I struggle with the best way to commemorate this day without it becoming a Continue reading December 6: First mourn, then work for change
When Lindsay Shepherd, a teaching assistant at Wilfrid Laurier University, hit play on an excerpt from Steve Paikin’s TVO program, The Agenda, during a seminar for her first-year communications students a few weeks ago, she had no idea of the Continue reading Free speech and pronouns