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Martha Payne a nine-year old girls rocks

I love stories like Martha Payne’s. She is a nine year old Scottish girl who’s websitewent viral. Its called NeverSeconds and she posted pictures of her school lunches and ranked them on a scale of 0-10. She used her site to raise money for a local food charity. It was not until the local school council pulled

Obituaries for women promote stereotypes

I was reading the obituaries lately and realized that longest and most detailed peices are about women. Not only that, but the words used to describe these women are quite telling. One in particular read: “In high school she was voted the student most likely to succeed … she was “the embodiment of everything that is good

Yeah for Brenda Morrison

Restorative justice expert and SFU professor Brenda Morrison wrote a great OpEd in the Vancouver Sun on June 19, 2012 comparing Vancouver to London and how they dealt with the rioters that damaged our city streets over the last few years. London courts combine punishment with restoration whereas Vancouver seems to be stuck in prosecutions and penalties – at a very

Yeah for Team Pink women who cycle

Dr Cathryn Zeglinski is not only a whistler doctor but was on the national cycling team and is a mountain bike racer and mother. She wears a pink jersey to show support for women in cycling – a sport dominated by men. As she says, in a sport where only the top 10 count, it

Nun is criticized by pope for sexual ethics book

Wow. A professor emeritus at Yale University who is also a Catholic nun has been told by the Pope that her award-winning 2006 book, “Just Love – A Framework for Christian Sexual Ethics” is not appropriate. Her book mentions both masturbation and homosexuality. The Vatican wrote a stinging report telling her that her writing manifest a “defective

Mark McEwan is a brave and brilliant judge

Justice Mark McEwan just did what governments are too afraid to do. He struck down the court hearing fees as being unconstitutional. He said, as all of us lawyers know, if people can not access justice (because they have no money or ability) then justice in denied. Obviously. So for now the government can no longer charge $500

I love the YWCA Women of Distinction Awards

I always cut and paste the full page of faces of women from the newspaper when the nominations for the YWCA Women of Distinction Awards come out. Many of these women I know, and many I do not. I am so please that the YWCA celebrates them across industries and advertises the wonderful things

Sue Paish moves

Congratulations to Sue Paish, lawyer extraordinaire on her move to head up LifeLabs.

Silicone sisters creates teen girl games

I just heard about the first all female-owned video game studio: Silicone Sisters Inc. It is Vancouver based and they have about 3000 (mostly teen girls) followers on Facebook. Good for you Brenda Bailey Gershkovitch and Kirsten Forbes. I am definitely going to look them up! www.siliconesisters.ca

Susan Mey goes from lawyer to Green Cricket fame

I love the story of Susan Mey who has a business degree, a law degree and was the president of Kodak. She now (as her father says) sells soap. I think that her work creating environmentally friendly and health-friendly products is brilliant and hopefully gives her the balance she was seeking. If nothing else, her