I am speaking in Victoria next Thursday at the Canadian Bar Association. The topic is gender and mediation. Sign up here. It’s at noon and should be fun. Lawyers from ADR, the Women Lawyer’s section and young lawyers are all invited!
LEAF (Legal Education and Action Fund) invites you to come hear four-minute presentations by West Coast LEAF’s fabulous program leads featuring images, stories, and highlights of our work to advance women’s equality this year. DATE: Tuesday, September 27, 2016 TIME: 5-7 p.m. LOCATION: Law Courts Inn, 5th floor – 800 Smithe Street, Vancouver The presentations …
Come to the LEAF AGM and Four Minutes for Equality Read More »
We need a new National Women’s Group. In Canada. Now. In 2001 our federal government closed the most important organization for the advancement of women in Canada. For 30 years the National Action Committee on the Status of Women (NAC) (founded in 1972) played a unifying role for the feminist movement in Canada. Its strength was in …
I am speaking at the Canadian Bar Association on January 21 at lunchtime in downtown Vancouver. This will be my he first talk on my new book: Lean Out (out in a few weeks). Here is the Blurb: LEAN OUT, NOT IN
I can’t wait to read this book: The Affective Assistance of Counsel: Practicing Law as a Healing Profession. Marjorie Silver is brilliant and so are all the lawyers who are striving to bring back the human side of law. Here is the blurb on the book: “This book is subversive. It aims to undermine the legal …
This is an article well worth reading by the women at Equal Voice. Please share it with all those women who are afraid to run for politics. Notley is an amazing woman
COME CELEBRATE INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY WITH WEST COAST LEAF’S 28TH ANNUAL EQUALITY BREAKFAST. Honour LEAFS collective achievements, be inspired, catch up with old friends, meet new ones. Raise money for West Coast LEAF’s upcoming projects in the areas of legal education, law reform, and litigation. KEYNOTE SPEAKER: MINNIJEAN BROWN TRICKEY. Click here for more information: Equality Breakfast. …
I love LEAF (I was once on the Board). Today LEAF lawyers are appearing before the Supreme Court of Canada to fight for mothers rights. It always amazes me that we capitalists don’t understand that mothers do all the work of raising our next generation with no income! Luckily LEAF understands social policy, the law and fairness! Here are some excerpts …
LEAF is fighting in the SCC today for pregnancy rights Read More »
Here is the third excerpt from my upcoming book. I posted the Introduction and the first of 50 strategies over the last two weeks. I welcome your feedback! “Men’s Guide to Ultimate Power -50 Strategies to Hold Women Back (Or Not)” Strategy 2. Expect Women to act like Mini-men “Therefore to be a more effective communicator, you must begin …
I love stories like this. Kim Beatty, who graduated from Western Law School like I did, decided to quit law after many years (like I did)and set up a charity called Children’s Book Bank. In the past 5 years this storefront charity in Toronto has given away over 400,000 books to kids and schools in need. …
