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Dr. Glenda Simms Dr. Glenda Simms, president of the Canadian Advisory Council on the Status of Women since 1989, champions the concept of an inclusive feminism. Dr. Simms began teaching in her native Jamaica. She has headed the Native Education Department of the Saskatchewan Indian Federated College, served as supervisor of Intercultural Education and Race and Ethnic Relations for the Regina Public School Board and taught in the Faculty of Education at Nipissing University in North Bay. A founding member of the National Organisation of Immigrant and Visible Minority Women of Canada and a Past President of the Congress of Black Women of Canada, she has received many awards including the Citation for Citizenship, the National Award from the Council for Multicultural and Intercultural Education, induction into the North Bay Human Rights Hall of Fame, the University of Alberta Inter Amicus Human Rights Award and an honorary membership in the Federation of Medical Women of Canada. |
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Jules Alexander Isaac Jules Alexander Isaac, a Grenadian by birth, migrated to Canada in 1950. He obtained a law degree from the University of Toronto in 1960. His private law practice took him back to Grenada and to various Canadian provinces. In addition, he worked for the Department of Justice from 1971 to 1989. His duties included serving as chief advisor to all federal prosecutors and advisor on criminal matters with other countries. Jules Isaac was later appointed Chief Justice of Toronto's Supreme Court and in 1991 he became Chief Justice of the Federal Court of Canada. |
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