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Local Feminist Passes

Friends and colleagues of Margaret Phillips are mouring her passing this week. She died on Wednesday at the age of 84.

Phillips was co-founder of the Northern Woman’s Bookstore and a member of the Advisory Committee that created the Women’s Studies Program at Lakehead University.

During most of her adult life, she worked for social justice, especially with feminist issues and Aboriginal rights. (Photo: lakeheadu.ca)

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