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Gottlieb, Amy
Person · 1953-2023
Amy Gottlieb was born in New York City and moved to Canada in 1972 to attend Trent University. Since the early 1960s, she was involved in socialist and feminist activism. She was a member of the Lesbian Organization of Toronto (LOOT), the International Women's Day Committee, and was a founding member of the Lesbians Against the Right, Lesbians Making History and the Jewish Women's Committee to End the Occupation. She was the editor of Healthsharing Magazine from 1987-1990. She also taught photography and was herself an accomplished photo artist.
Amy Gottlieb died in 2023 of cancer.
Brodsky, Gwen
Person

Gwen Brodsky, LLB (University of Victoria) 1981; LLM (Harvard) 1994; PhD (Osgoode Hall) 1999, is a leading constitutional equality rights lawyer. She has argued major constitutional equality rights cases in Canadian courts, including the Supreme Court of Canada. She has also appeared before treaty bodies of the United Nations and the Americas. Ms. Brodsky was counsel to Sharon McIvor in the case of McIvor v. Canada (2007 BCSC 827; 2009 BCCA 153; 2009 CanLII 61383 (SCC)), a constitutional challenge to the sex discrimination in the status registration provisions of the Indian Act, and represented Ms. McIvor in her subsequent petition to the United Nations Human Rights Committee. The McIvor lawsuit and petition were ground-breaking in Canadian and international law, and the ensuing legislative reform established eligibility for Indian status for thousands of previously excluded descendants of Indigenous women.

Ms. Brodsky has dedicated her work to the equal-seeking community, frequently representing non-governmental organizations engaged in collaborative litigation and law reform initiatives, involving lawyers, community advocates, and academics. Her work is focused on enforcing governmental obligations under statutory, constitutional, and international human rights law, to realize rights to social and economic security and equality. Ms. Brodsky has represented, among others, the National Association of Women and the Law (NAWL), the National Action Committee on the Status of Women (NAC), the Women’s Legal Education and Action Fund (LEAF), the Native Women’s Association of Canada (NWAC), the Charter Committee on Poverty Issues (CCPI), Equality for Gays and Lesbians Everywhere (EGALE), and the Council of Canadians with Disabilities (CCD).

Gwen Brodsky is also a prolific writer and an equality rights theorist who began writing at a time when interpretations of equality rights were being newly considered and contested. She has made significant contributions to analysis and jurisprudence concerning substantive equality, social and economic rights, and human rights remedies. Her joint publications with Shelagh Day include Canadian Charter Equality Rights for Women: One Step Forward or Two Steps Back? (Ottawa: Canadian Advisory Council on the Status of Women, 1990), a comprehensive study of the early years of Charter litigation, and Women and the Equality Deficit, an examination of the impact on women of cuts to social programmes.

Brodsky and Day’s writing has been cited by numerous courts and tribunals. Notably, Brodsky and Day’s analysis advanced in “The Legal Duty To Accommodate: Who Benefits?” [1996] vol. 75 The Canadian Bar Review 433, was applied by the Supreme Court of Canada to transform and strengthen Canadian law on the duty to accommodate, in the landmark case known as Meiorin. Brodsky was also counsel to BCGEU in Meiorin.

Gwen Brodsky has been involved in the Canadian equality rights movement since its earliest days. In the 1980’s, as a law student, she served as a member of the Steering Committee of NAWL. This was an historic period when the proposed language of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms was being debated, and NAWL was active in a campaign to secure wording that would advance the substantive equality goals of women and other disadvantaged groups. From 1985 to 1987 Ms. Brodsky was the first Litigation Director of the Women’s Legal Education and Action Fund (LEAF) in Toronto. Subsequently, she has maintained a constitutional and human rights law practice and consultancy based in Vancouver, British Columbia. In 2001, she and Shelagh Day founded the Poverty and Human Rights Centre, to advance the law concerning social and economic rights, in particular the rights of the poorest people.

Gwen Brodsky has taught human rights and constitutional law at the University of British Columbia, and in the Akitsiraq Law Program in Iqaluit. She has been an advisor to Canadian non-governmental organizations, Indigenous organizations, human rights commissions, governments, trade unions, employers, and universities.
Mayne, Seymour
Person
Seymour Mayne is professor at the University of Ottawa and the author, editor or translator of more than fifty books and monographs, including anthologies and critical texts. He co-founded the poetry monthly Bywords, the poster magazine Graffito, and for a number of seasons he served as MC of the popular poetry reading venue, Bard. His work is represented in more than eighty national and international anthologies, and his own writings have been translated into French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Italian, Polish, Russian, Spanish, and Yiddish. He has given hundreds of lectures and readings at universities and other institutions across Canada, the U.S., and abroad.
Moore, Kathleen
Person · 1954-
Kathleen Moore (Pageot) was born in Montréal in 1954. In the late 1970s, she began to study at Concordia University and received the Concordia University Award for Creative Writing in the Arts in 1981. During her studies, she began corresponding with University of Ottawa Professor Seymour Mayne. From 1979 to 1982, she edited Athanor, a magazine dedicated to Canadian poetry. Her poems have been published in numerous books such as Celebrating Canadian Women : Prose and Poetry By and About Women, Poetry Toronto, Canadian Authors and Bookman, Raddle Moon and Here is a Poem. One of her poetry compilation, Nova : 9 poems, was issued following a workshop with schoolchildren from the Protestant School Board. Kathleen Moore has also written reviews for Books in Canada, From an Island and Wave and published three non-fiction works for Athanor : The Great Year in Myth and Religion, West and East : Explored Through the Revelation of John the Divine (1984), the preliminary draft of The Vernal Equinox : a Common Tradition in Western Myth and Mysticism (1983) and Kings and Paradigms : Space and Time in Revelation (1983).
Rise Up! A Digital Archive of Feminist Activism
Corporate body · 2014-
The Rise Up project aims to create a digital archive of original publications, documents, flyers, posters, and many other materials representing feminist activism from the 1970s to 1990s. The goal is to help preserve the diversity, vibrancy and radical legacy of this era and to make it accessible online to new generations of activists, students, and researchers. It is volunteer run. Founding members are Nancy Adamson, Linda Briskin, Margaret McPhail, Alana Cattapan, Tara Cleveland, Sue Colley, Maureen FitzGerald, Amy Gottlieb, Franca Iacovetta, Meg Luxton.
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Kaye, Lynn
Person · [19??]
Lynn Kaye has been part of the Women's Movement for over 50 years and contributed to many organizations. She was a homemaker with two children, lawyer, and active member of several organizations in the women's movement as well as unionization. Lynn co-founded the Canadian Women's Educational Press, the Birth Control Information Center at York University, both the National and Ottawa Caucus of the National Association of Women and the Law, Ottawa Women's Lobby, and the Equal Pay Coalition. While a member at the National Action Committee for the Status of Women (NAC), where she was president in 1988-1989, Lynn sat on many sub-committees including employment and publication, while lobbying and writing for the advancement of women. In 1977, Lynn successfully lobbied and obtained the 'equal pay for equal value' in the Canadian Human Rights Act and often appeared at standing committees on various issues.
Phillips, Margaret
Person · 1931-2015

Margaret Phillips (12 April 1931-4 November 2015) was a builder and promoter of the Northwestern Ontario women's writing community for close to thirty years in the Thunder Bay region. In 1984, Margaret Phillips and Anna McColl co-founded the Northern Woman's Bookstore. From discussions held by the Collective of the Northern Woman Journal - one of Canada's longest running feminist newspapers - it became evident there was a demand for women's literature, and no available bookstore within 1,000 miles. The Bookstore began on Bay Street with only 300 titles, and changed locations over the years, expanding its book selection. In 1992 it moved to Court Street, a site large enough to host book readings and act as a community space.

Margaret was a tireless advocate and educator for women's issues, particularly those specific to Indigenous women and women of Northern Ontario. In 2008, Margaret was awarded the KOUHI award by the Northwestern Ontario Writers Workshop for her outstanding contribution to the promotion and encouragement of writing in Northwestern Ontario. It was noted that the Northern Woman's Bookstore has provided a safe and supporting place for women and the writing community to gather and strengthen their voices. Similarly, in 2008, Margaret was recognized with the Bay Credit Union Social Responsibility Award, and in 2012 the Northern Women's bookstore was recognized by the Crime Prevention Council. The community safety award for Business recognized the Northern Woman's Bookstore and its team of volunteer staff for playing a fundamental role in crime prevention by empowering women for nearly 30 years.
Karlstedt, Fiona
Person · 1949-2023
Fiona Karlstedt (30 December 1949 - 30 November 2023) was a strong advocate for social justice, who worked for numerous organizations and services of the Thunder Bay region. In 1982-1983, Fiona was employed as administrator for the Northern Women's Centre, and was involved in the wider woman's movement of the region. She is featured in "40 Fabulous Feminists & Amazing Activists of Northwestern Ontario", published by Northwestern Ontario Women's Centre.
Some of Fiona's published works include:
- 1987, "Northwestern Ontario Status of Women Initiatives, 1973-1987" (Secretary of State Women's Program & Ontario Women's Directorate)
- 1989 "The history of the battered women's movement in Northwestern Ontario" (Thunder Bay, Ontario: Northwestern Ontario Women's Decade Council, Women Against Violence Sub-Committee).