Afterword

Michele Landsberg

Michele Landsberg, a celebrated Toronto-born writer, feminist, and activist, wrote columns from a feminist perspective in The Toronto Star for 25 years. Her columns made a significant impact at the height of the women’s movement and she won two National Newspaper Awards, including the first ever given for column writing. She also wrote columns for The Globe and Mail for three years while she lived in New York when her husband, Stephen Lewis, was Canada’s ambassador to the United Nations. Michele has published four books, on topics ranging from children’s literature to feminism to New York life, and has been awarded seven honorary degrees from Canadian universities. In 2002 she was awarded the Governor General’s Medal in Commemoration of the Persons Case; in 2006, she was made an Officer of the Order of Canada, and in 2014, the Canadian Journalism Foundation announced a joint award (with the Canadian Women’s Foundation) to be called The Landsberg, to honour a journalist who shines a light on women’s equality issues in Canada.