The Female View from the Bench 1968 (Throwback Thursday)

To wrap up our week-long theme in honour of International Women’s Day, for our Throwback today, we found an article in the Ottawa Citizen, December 4, 1968, featuring two female judges from Saskatchewan Tillie Taylor (1922-2011) and Mary Carter (1923-2010). In “The Female View from the Magistrate’s Bench: We’re Still Putting People in Jail Because They’re Poor”, the two judges...