Former Chief Justice of Canada Beverley McLachlin remembers how reporting on salads for the Edmonton Journal’s ‘women’s section’ proved useful on Canada’s highest bench
Former Chief Justice shares her first job: ‘I covered the Salad Queen contest, which was a big deal in those days’Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin, retired after 28 years on the Supreme Court of Canada , seventeen of those as the 17th Chief Justice of Canada . McLachlin is photographed at her office at the Supreme Court of Canada , on Dec. 11, 2017., lands this week – remembers how reporting on salads for the Edmonton Journal ’s “women’s section” proved useful on Canada ’s highest bench.
Well, on the first day, I arrived at the newsroom with two other guys. They were promptly given jobs in the main newsroom while the bosses said to me, “You’ll be working in the women’s section.” In those days, newspapers had dedicated “women’s sections” with things like recipes, parenting, women’s clubs, rummage sales and church groups.
I resolved to do my best, whatever my story assignment was. I covered the Salad Queen contest, which was a big deal in those days for whichever woman made the best salad. When I’d talk to the guys in the coffee room, they’d be doing really good stories about the goings-on in the city and at city hall, and I was doing … salads.
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