My latest feature, “O Mother Where Art Thou?” is in Precedent magazine. It’s been one year since the Law Society of Upper Canada introduced its “Justicia” initiative in an effort to reverse the high attrition rate of female lawyers in private practice in Ontario. This piece finds out how it’s working. Finding female lawyers willing [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘Canada’
November 17, 2009
Susan Ouriou wins GG award for translation
Perhaps the most humble translator Canada has ever seen, Susan Ouriou is dedicated to the words and meaning of the texts she translates. I had a chance to see her in action as part of the Emerging Aboriginal Writer’s program in Banff this September. She worked with one French speaking student in particular, taking care [...]
April 30, 2009
Girl Guides of Canada on its deathbed and it’s killing me inside
When I heard the news that the Girl Guides of Canada have lost 40 percent of their members in the last ten years, I felt kind of sad. It’s slightly hypocritical of me to mourn the death of this 100-year-old citizen building organization though. I followed my older sister into Brownies (they didn’t have Sparks [...]
April 28, 2009
Girl Guides & eating disorders; Big Pharma busted in Ontario; female breadwinners on the rise; Cda to takeover GM?
Here are my picks for National News, written for air this morning on Take 5, CIUT 89.5 FM Big Pharma bilks the system – but Ontario busts them for $34 million The Ontario Health Ministry has busted some pharmacies, drug manufacturers and wholesalers for a scheme where they ordered more drugs than they needed so [...]
April 23, 2009
Beaver trapping in Northern Ontario
Stripped of their tail, fur and legs, the six small beaver strung up side-by-side over the open fire look remarkably like the small pig carcasses commonly dissected in high school biology classes. “They’re done when the blood stops dripping,” says Leonard Naveau, who cooks the meat slowly over four hours, watching as it turns from [...]
