Selected Presentations & Trainings

2024

  • Address to June 17, 2024 Afternoon Convocation, upon receiving the degree of Doctor of Laws, honoris causa
  • Panelist: Responding to intimate partner violence, Rural Municipalities of Ontario Annual Convention
  • Witness: Bill C-332, An Act to Amend the Criminal Code: coercive control of intimate partners, Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights
  • Keynote: What Can I Do? Moving forward to address the epidemic of intimate partner violence, Prince Edward, Hastings and Lennox and Addington Community Coordinating Committee
  • Keynote speaker: Working together to build a community response to intimate partner violence, Victim Services Wellington Guelph
  • Keynote speaker: What Can I Do? Moving forward to address the epidemic of intimate partner violence, Algome Domestic Violence Council
  • Trainer: Rural Roots, Neighbours, Friends and Families webinar
  • Keynote speaker: Women in Crisis Algoma 45th anniversary, with Erin Lee
  • Panelist: Because of You: A gathering on the second anniversary of the CKW inquest verdict

2023

  • Guest speaker: Inspirational interviews, Part 1 and Part 2, The Pixel Project
  • Keynote speaker: 16 days of activism, Cape Breton University
  • Guest speaker with Erin Lee: Ontario’s unacknowledged epidemic and its impact on women and children, CFUW Ontario Council Speaker Series
  • Keynote speaker: Woman Abuse Working Group, Hamilton
  • Guest speaker: The Walrus Talks: Gender-based violence (presentation, whole event)
  • Keynote speaker: The Redwood Shelter Annual General Meeting
  • Panelist: Keira’s legacy of hope: Judicial education on family violence, Family Violence Family Law, Western University
  • Keynote speaker with Kirsten Mercer: After the inquest, Imagine Conference, Almonte, Ontario
  • Keynote speaker: And sometimes they kill you: Anatomy of a femicide inquest, CFUW Etobicoke, Stop the Violence Breakfast.

2022

2021

  • Guest lecturer: Family law and violence against women, University of Windsor, Faculty of Law
  • Panelist: Intersections of domestic and sexual violence in criminal and family law, University of Windsor Sexual Assault Awareness Committee
  • Panelist: Impact of screening for traumatic brain injury on family law cases involving family violence, SOAR Conference: Moving Ahead
  • Keynote speaker: Language matters when we talk about violence against women, Dufferin Caledon Domestic Assault Review Team Annual Conference
  • Keynote speaker: Changes to Canadian Family Law: What supervised visitation providers need to know, Supervised Visitation Network
  • Speaker: numerous webinars relating to changes in Canadian family laws for Women’s Shelters Canada
  • Keynote speaker: Responding to sexual assault survivors, Cadillac Fairview National Security Team
  • Keynote speaker: Systemic changes within the legal system, Chatham Kent Sexual Assault Centre Annual Conference.

2020

2019

  • Keynote: Will Canada’s new Divorce Act keep women and children fleeing abuse safe? and Workshop Presenter: Supporting women against allegations of parental alienation, Diverse Voices Conference, Edmonton
  • Presenter: Is Canada’s new Divorce Act good enough for women and children fleeing abuse? Association of Family and Conciliation Courts Ontario Annual Conference, Hamilton
  • Presenter: Violence against Women and the Law, Lanark County Community Partners Conference, Lanark County, Ontario
  • Award Recipient: Guthrie Award, Law Foundation of Ontario, Toronto (PDF or video)
  • Award Recipient: Laura Legge Award, Law Society of Ontario, Toronto (audio or PDF)
  • Panel member, with Donna Martinson and Dan Ashbourne: Reaching just outcomes while avoiding rabbit holes in family violence cases, National Judicial Institute B.C. family court judges, Kelowna, British Columbia
  • Keynote Speaker: When Shared Parenting and the Safety of Women and Children Collide, Muskoka DART Annual Conference, Port Carling, Ontario
  • Keynote Speaker: Setting the Political Context for Violence Against Women Work, Eastern Ontario MCCSS Agencies Annual Conference, Kingston
  • Guest lecturer: Violence against women and family law, Feminist Legal Advocacy Course, Osgoode Hall Law School, Toronto

2018

  • Witness: Bill C-78, The House of Commons Justice Committee, Ottawa
  • Keynote Speaker: December 6, Whitehorse, Yukon
  • Instructor: Screening for Mediation and Domestic Violence, Six-Minute Family Law Lawyer Seminar, Law Society of Ontario, Toronto
  • Guest Lecturer: Violence against Women and Family Law, University of Windsor, Faculty of Law, Windsor
  • Keynote Speaker: When Shared Parenting and the Safety of Women and Children Collide, Lennox and Addington Domestic Violence Coordinating Committee Annual Conference, Belleville
  • Workshop Presenter: What You Don’t Know Can Hurt You: Family Violence Screening Tools for Family Law Practitioners, Canadian Domestic Violence Conference, Halifax
  • Presenter: Recordkeeping, Confidentiality and Violence Against Women, Aboriginal Shelters of Ontario, Toronto
  • Keynote Speaker: Speaking Up, Speaking Out, Staying Safe, Young Women’s Empowerment Conference, Malvern Collegiate Institute, Toronto
  • Co-presenter with Rachael MacLean: Family Court and Beyond, National Shelter Conference, Ottawa
  • Presenter: What You Don’t Know Can Hurt You: Family Violence Screening Tools for Family Law Practitioners, National Family Law Program, Vancouver
  • Panelist: Summing Up Domestic Violence Screening, Ontario Bar Association, Bread and Butter Issues for Family Law Lawyers, Toronto (also webcast)
  • Speaker: Family Violence, Screening and Family Mediation, Ontario Association for Family Mediators Annual Conference, Toronto
  • Speaker: Family court challenges and strategies for family violence survivors, Leeds and Grenville Domestic Violence Awareness Training, Spencerville
  • Speaker: What You Don’t Know Can Hurt You: the importance of family violence screening tools for family law practitioners, Law Society of Ontario, Six-Minute Family Law Lawyer, Toronto (also webcast)

2017

  • Speaker: Working Effectively with the Media on Issues of Violence Against Women, Kingston Frontenac Anti-Violence Coordinating Committee, Kingston
  • Co-presenter with Paula Wansbrough: Best Practices Using Technology to Support Survivors and their Advocates in Rural and Remote Communities, Canadian Domestic Homicide Prevention Conference, London
  • Co-presenter with Justice Jennifer Mackinnon: Best Practices in Advocacy, Assessment and ADR in Cases Affected by Intimate Partner Violence, Association of Family and Conciliation Courts, Ontario Annual Conference, Toronto
  • Keynote speaker: It Shouldn’t Be This Hard: Family Law and Violence Against Women, Waterloo Region Domestic Assault Review Team Annual Conference, Waterloo
  • Presenter: Supporting Survivors of Family Violence Who are Involved with the Family Law System, Diverse Voices Family Violence Conference, Edmonton
  • Keynote speaker: Shared Parenting vs the Safety of Women and Children, Diverse Voices Family Violence Conference, Edmonton
  • Speaker: December 6th Memorial, Renfrew County Women’s Monument, Petawawa, Ontario, December 6, 2017
  • Speaker: Renfrew County December 6, 2017 Vigil, Eganville, Ontario
  • Presenter: National Association of Women and the Law Submission to the Standing Senate Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs Public Hearing on Bill S-202, Ottawa, Ontario
  • Keynote speaker: It Shouldn’t Be This Hard: Family law and violence against women. Waterloo Region Domestic Assault Review Team Annual Conference, Waterloo

2016

  • Keynote speaker: Sexual Assault: Be Part of the Solution, From Ghomeshi to Ururyar: Sexual assault as seen through two criminal cases, Fort Frances
  • Speaker: Monument to Survivors of Sexual Violence Commemoration, Eganville
  • Keynote speaker: Take Back the Night, Petawawa and Eganville
  • Keynote speaker: Power of our voices, AGM, Women’s Sexual Assault Centre of Renfrew County
  • Performer: Anybody can be pussy riot, Storefront Festival, Kingston, Ontario
  • Keynote speaker: Reflections on moving forward from the murders of women, Women’s Sexual Assault Centre of Renfrew County, Pembroke
  • Panelist: Domestic violence, Law Society of Upper Canada Family Law Summit, Toronto
  • Keynote speaker: When Shared Parenting and the Safety of Women and Children Collide, WomanAct Annual Conference, Toronto

2015

2014

  • Keynote speaker: Opening of New Space, Women’s Sexual Assault Centre of Renfrew County
  • Submission: Family Justice Consultation, Ministry of the Attorney General
  • Presenter: Providing family court support to survivors of domestic violence, Association of Family and Conciliation Courts Annual Conference: Navigating the waters of Shared Parenting: Guidance from the Harbor, Toronto
  • Panelist: Supporting victims of domestic violence from collectivist communities, Conference for Domestic Violence Crown Attorneys and V/WAP leads (Ontario)

2013

2012

  • Keynote speaker: December 6 Vigil, Lindsay
  • Keynote speaker: Take Back the Night, Women’s Sexual Assault Centre of Renfrew County
  • Lecturer: In whose best interests? A feminist examination of Ontario family law, Guelph
  • Keynote speaker: Violence against women and family law: A gender analysis, Spotlighting Peel Family Mediation Services Community Conference
  • Paper presentation: Context Is Everything, Balancing cultural rights and gender protection: Applying international standards to changes to Ontario’s Arbitration Act, the NS case and the citizenship oath, Women, the Charter and CEDAW in the 21st Century, Queen’s University, Kingston

2011

  • Keynote speaker: December 6: Ending Violence Against Women: A Report Card, Women’s College Hospital, Toronto
  • Speaker: American Bar Association, Annual General Meeting, Human Rights, Domestic and Sexual Violence: A Cross-Border Perspective
  • Lecturer: Not in the best interests of women and children: Making women’s reality invisible through the custody and access provisions of the Divorce Act, Feminist Speaker Series, Faculty of Law, Queen’s University, Kingston

2010

  • Keynote speaker: Challenges with family court for women leaving abusive partners, Hamilton Family Court Conference
  • Speaker: Perspectives on procedural reform in family law matters, Warren Winkler Lecture on Civil Justice Reform, Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa
  • Speaker: Communicating risk to family court and family court related services, Centre for Research and Education on Violence Against Women and Children Threat Assessment Conference, London
  • Keynote speaker and full-day co-presenter with Dr. Linda Baker: Violence against women, separation and children: A volatile mix, 2010 Northern Child Abuse Conference, Sault Ste. Marie
  • Keynote speaker: CEDAW, family law and women’s equality, Lahey Feminist Speaker Series, University of Windsor, Faculty of Law

2009

  • Lecturer: Mothers on trial, Remember Resist: 20th Anniversary Memorial for the Montreal Massacre, Vancouver
  • Panelist: Pros and cons of mediation and arbitration in family law, Third Annual Warren Winkler Lecture on Civil Justice Reform, University of Ottawa
  • Presenter with Dr. D.L. Iffla: The vengeful cunt asked for it: Constructions of women as evil in our analysis of rape, Evil, Women and the Feminine Interdisciplinary Conference, Budapest, Hungary

2008

  • Keynote speaker: Ending rape, Wall of Silence Conference: A National Symposium to End Sexual Violence in University and College Communities, Wilfred Laurier University, Waterloo
  • Keynote speaker: Inventing a future of peace, Inter Pares Annual General Meeting, Ottawa