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New Handy Guide for Canadian Legal Research

Every lawyer needs this booklet: The Ultimate Guide to Canadian Legal Research published by Lexis/Nexis (September 2013). It is written by Maureen Fitzgerald and Susan Barker and is a complete checklist of all the steps you must take to conduct any legal research. I am not just saying this because I wrote it. The best part: I think it is

Women catch up to men in infidelity

Recent research shows that women are having more extra marital affairs these days. In fact wife affairs rose almost 40 percent in the last 20 years. Why? Although we like to think it has to do with sex drive this is not the case. According to Daniel Bergner author of, “What do Women Want?” women’s sex drives

See Sally Armstrong in Vancouver on March 25

Sally Armstrong, a member of the Order of Canada and three-time Amnesty International Award winner will be speaking in Vancouver on March 25 at 7:30 at st Andrews Wesley on Burrard for $21. She just wrote a new book: Ascent of Women which is getting rave reviews. She shows us that the fight against female oppression

Gold Corp has a program that advances women

I just read about Gold Corp’s (a huge mining company) mentoring program for woman called Creating Choices. Apparently 500 women internationally have graduated from the program that consists of six modules on topics ranging from empowerment to leadership. Wow! I will look into it and of course add it to my collection of “women-advancing initiatives” for

My 10 book titles on advancing women and girls

I have been writing 2 books on advancing women and girls for over four years now. It just occured to me that if I really wanted to get all my ideas out to the world quickly it would be better to write 8-10 smaller practical ebooks than 2 big hardcover books. So I recently chunked my