On Friday, April 12, Bill and I, together with our colleague, Anne Reinhart, held the first #411forthe911 Symposium for the London Professional Firefighters’ Association. Our goal was to educate first responders about the medical and rehabilitation, and financial realities, of becoming seriously injured whether on the job or not! Based on the questions posed to […]
ATTENTION FIREFIGHTERS & ASPIRING FIREFIGHTERS Enter for your chance to win free registration and two nights stay to Fire Service Women Ontario’s 2018 SYMPOSIUM & AGM sponsored by Lerners LLP During last year’s conference I unexpectedly won the prize for free registration to this year’s FSWO Symposium and AGM hosted by Conestoga College. It was […]
May 4th – 6th, 2018, marked the 27th London Lesbian Film Festival. The annual three day movie screening event aims to portray a variety of images and narratives which reflect the experiences of people who identify as women. Of note is the fact that in 2016, the festival organizers, also known as the ‘Reeling Spinsters’, […]
On May 8th and 9th I attended the Healthy Communities Conference in Owen Sound representing Lerners who was a sponsor at the event. The goal of the conference was to unpack the root causes of Indigenous health inequities in the Grey-Bruce region and to create partnerships for wellbeing. The conference sessions explored cultural safety, local […]
In case you missed it, March 8th marked International Women’s Day (IWD) and provided an opportunity to acknowledge the ongoing struggle for gender equality in compensation, representation in business and politics, education and health while also recognizing improvements and progress. Lawyers and staff were encouraged to wear purple, the official colour of IWD, and celebrated […]
International Women’s Day, Thursday, March 8th, is a global day celebrating the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women and acknowledge the challenges they continue to face in the quest for gender equality. International Women’s Day is not country, group or organisation specific. The day belongs to all groups collectively everywhere. With the World […]