What’s Current: Black rights activist Viola Desmond to be first Canadian woman on $10 bill

Civil rights pioneer Viola Desmond. (Image: CBC)
Civil rights pioneer Viola Desmond. (Image: CBC)

Black rights activist Viola Desmond will be the first Canadian woman to be featured on the country’s $10 bill. Often referred to as “Canada’s Rosa Parks,” (though her historic act of defiance occurred nine years before Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus), Desmond was jailed for sitting in the “whites only” section of a Nova Scotia film house.

A 17-year-old boy is accused of plotting an attack on Oakwood Collegiate Institute in Toronto on the anniversary of the Montreal Massacre.

Two men pulled a female driver out of her vehicle and beat her with hockey sticks in front of her child. Calgary police called this incident of male violence “a bizarre road rage incident.”

Sofia Vergara is being sued by two frozen embryos she conceived with her ex-partner, Nick Loeb, who already tried once to sue for the embryos’ custody. Loeb’s legal team claims the embryos are being deprived of their inheritance from a trust by not being born.

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Meghan Murphy is a freelance writer and journalist from Vancouver, BC. She has been podcasting and writing about feminism since 2010 and has published work in numerous national and international publications, including The Spectator, UnHerd, Quillette, the CBC, New Statesman, Vice, Al Jazeera, The Globe and Mail, and more. Meghan completed a Masters degree in the department of Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies at Simon Fraser University in 2012 and is now exiled in Mexico with her very photogenic dog.