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While employers have been wrestling for some time with the extent of their duty to accommodate parents with children to avoid employee claims of discrimination based on family status, a new decision from the Ontario Human Rights Tribunal is a reminder that increasing number of employees...

Heather Gardiner from Canadian Lawyer Magazine spoke with FLAC Chair Shelley Quinn to provide input into teaching modules for law schools created by the Law Commission of Ontario, that will educate law students about violence against women issues.

My name is Sheryl Smolkin. I’m a lawyer and a journalist and a member of the Feminist Legal Analysis Section ot the OBA. Today I’m talking to Mary Lou Fassel, Director of Legal Services at the Barbra Schlifer Commemorative Clinic.

Feminist Legal Analysis Section - OBA Awards Dinner, October 2, 2012

On October 2nd, 2012, the Feminist Legal Analysis Section of the OBA awarded long time feminist and women’s equality rights activist, Mary Lou Fassel, with the OBA Award of Excellence in the Promotion of Women's Equality.

As I consider the word feminist, I’d like to acknowledge two trail blazers who died in the past year: Madame Justice Mabel Van Camp, the first woman appointed to the Supreme Court of Ontario, died April 19, 2012. She was 91.

A brief note on another pioneer who has left us, Doris Ogilvie.

Farewell Madeleine Parent: Her obituaries described her as “one of those radical, uppity women that made people in power nervous” and as having “une volonté de fer et un collier de perles” (“an iron will and a pearl necklace”).

The increasing role that social media has in engaging younger women and men in feminist activism