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Watch Sharon McIvor talk about the case that bears her name
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This video comes via the UBC Law Centre for Feminist Legal Studies. It is about two or three years old. In it, Sharon McIvor speaks about the continuing sex discrimination in the Indian Act, starting from the Act’s original disenfranchisement of status women who married non-Indians. She refers to a long line of women…
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It was a great privilege to see Sherene Razack speak today at an event organized by students at York’s Faculty of Environmental Studies. Time to thank the people -faculty, students and staff, who roll up their sleeves and make these things happen. Here is another set of things you may wish you could be at:…
Dr. Vrinda Narain : Research Profile in McGill Law mag
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Sex work/workers in Canada after Bedford: watch our Nov.24 event
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Along with METRAC/OWJN, the IFLS held a panel discussion on November 24 in order to ask “how we might map out the way that this case shifts the debate and the context of the debate around sex work in Canada”. The whole session was taped – so if you couldn’t make it, here it is,…
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Interested in the content, but also in how student television at mcGill has nicely packaged this up for broad consumption!