THE HILL TIMES, OTTAWA
‘Nation builder’ Gina Wilson striving for civil service where indigenous are ‘respected and included’.
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‘Nation builder’ Gina Wilson striving for civil service where indigenous are ‘respected and included’.
Five women from across the women were celebrated at the "Persons" Case Awards luncheon on April 21.
A former federal health minister and a University of Ottawa law professor were recognized Thursday for their accomplishments in furthering women’s rights.
Famous 5 Ottawa honoured five outstanding Canadian women at a luncheon April 21, the same day they received the 2015 Governor General’s Awards in Commemoration of the Persons Case at Rideau Hall.
Political leader and activist the Honourable Monique Bégin is among five outstanding Canadian women who will receive the 2015 Governor General’s Person Case Award this month, one of Canada’s highest awards for women.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is appointing the head of his transition team and six other Canadians to the Senate in the first injection of fresh blood to the scandal-plagued institution in three years.
Finance Minister Bill Morneau says he is open to adding a famous woman or women to Canadian banknotes.
There are no Canadian women on the current series of polymer bank notes, but the Liberal government’s finance minister says he supports adding a female face to the currency.
Fifty-eight per cent of Canadians strongly or somewhat approve of changing the Canadian national anthem’s lyrics from ‘in all thy sons command’ to ‘in all of us command,’ according to a new poll.
Wynne was in Ottawa Thursday to speak to Famous 5 Ottawa, an organization named after five trail-blazing women in the 1920s who won rights for women to be involved in politics. (They’re memorialized in a sculpture on Parliament Hill and on the back of the new $50 bill). The Ottawa chapter celebrates “ordinary women doing extraordinary things.”
Famous 5 Ottawa event talks women in politics, honour Jenni Byrne, Anne McGrath, Katie Telford and Sen. Marjory LeBreton as nation builders.
For the first time in Canadian history, each of the three main political parties has turned to a woman to run its campaign in this year’s federal election. The development is being heralded as a major step forward for women as they gain a greater role in political backrooms long dominated by men.