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Representation by women has been a significant issue in Canadian politics since 1900. The first woman elected to a provincial legislature in Canada was Louise McKinney in the 1917 Alberta general election, while the first woman elected to the House of Commons of Canada was Agnes Macphail, in the 1921 Canadian federal election.
Althia Raj is a Canadian political journalist and a member of the Parliamentary Press Gallery. [1] [2] [3] She is a regular columnist with the Toronto Star.[4]She was formerly the Ottawa Bureau Chief for HuffPost Canada, where she managed the Quebec City bureau and hosted and produced the politics podcast Follow-Up [5] [3] until BuzzFeed purchased HuffPost and abruptly ended Canadian operations.
This represents a gain of three seats from the previous record of 100 women in the 43rd Canadian Parliament, of whom 98 were elected in the 2019 federal election, [1] followed by two more at subsequent by-elections in 2020. Women have been elected to the House of Commons from every province and territory in Canada.
Meghan Emily Murphy is a Canadian writer, journalist, and founder of Feminist Current, [1] a feminist website and podcast. [2] [3] Her writing, speeches, and talks have criticized third-wave feminism, male feminists, the sex industry, exploitation of women in mass media, censorship, and gender identity legislation.
Four of the sixteen women first ministers won the title by defeating an incumbent first minister in a general election, while three were chosen by a consensus of their legislative assembly. The rest won the title through a party leadership race between elections, although several of those went on to win a general election as the incumbent premier.
Politics portal; Pages in category "Lists of women politicians in Canada" The following 26 pages are in this category, out of 26 total. ... Women in the 27th Canadian ...
Celina R. Caesar-Chavannes (born June 24, 1974) is a Canadian politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for the riding of Whitby in the House of Commons of Canada from 2015 to 2019. Elected as a Liberal in the 2015 federal election , [ 1 ] she later sat as an independent member.
The number of women in the Canadian Parliament has been slowly but steadily increasing since the 1980s [9] and has reached its highest point following the 2019 Canadian federal election where women made up 29.6% [10] of the Canadian Parliament which is higher than the global average of 25.5% [11] and very close to the 1995 United Nations goal ...