Women absolutely have the capacity to change politics

Two elected and empowered women from remarkably different backgrounds and opposing parties are using their respective voices in two different legislatures to persuade their colleagues to act, or think, differently than they may have in the past.

Maria Fitzpatrick, a first-term NDP MLA, rose in the Alberta Legislature this past week to support a private member’s bill on violence against women. As a private member’s bill, the proposed measure might have seemed modest to some—to enable wome...

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