5. Gender - Brigitte Pellerin (Page 4)

29 Nov 2023 4 min read

Victim heal thyself — and while you're at it, pull yourself up by the bootstraps

There are few areas of law where victims get revictimized so routinely as those that involve sexual abuse or intimate partner violence. Or both. Where else do we make victims relive, repeatedly and

21 Nov 2023 6 min read

Ma voix, my weapon

** Content warning ** This article discusses sexual violence and its long-term impacts. ** Avertissement ** Cet article discute de la violence sexuelle et de ses effets à long terme. This is a topic that is very

15 Nov 2023 4 min read

A land of extremes

I had not seen a truck with the full Confederate flag treatment in this town before, I thought as I jogged past the jacked-up white Dodge wearing the gayest rainbow-pride Apple Watch and

10 Nov 2023 3 min read

Make housing a right

In my Ottawa Citizen column this week I allow myself a little bit of mild woot-wootingon housing. No, we’re nowhere near getting close to attempting to solve the crisis. But it’s

27 Oct 2023 2 min read

In praise of slow(er)

In my Ottawa Citizen column this week I blow a gasket at the extreme speeding and general lack of driving skills found on too many streets in Ottawa. In my legal writing for