Celebrations and Milestones March 17, 2017 – Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin received the first-ever Simone de Beauvoir Institute Prize and delivered a lecture on the importance of the courts in Canadian democracy as part of the Social Science Research workshop series at Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec . In receiving her Prize she made a…
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Do We Really Need a Women’s Political Party? (Part I)
“Women have all the power,” my best friend always used to say, “too bad they don’t know it!” Go To: Part II – Female Leadership, Part III – Electoral Reform Original Post – Spring 2011: Is Canada in need of a women’s political party? I recently attended a Dialogue for Democracy meeting where the topic for…
Church and State vs Religion and Politics (Part I)
Original post – Spring 2012: Secularism is the belief that government exists separately from religion and religious beliefs. Under this definition, it is viewed that government plays a neutral role and views human activities and political decisions should be unbiased by religious influence. It is not an argument against Christianity, it’s independent of it without actively…
