Ford: There is an antidote to all the negative news in the last week

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What a woeful, depressing week this has been. Not only for women but for socially enlightened and liberated people everywhere.

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There is a perfect antidote. But first, a taste of what has been.

The U.S. Supreme Court — a lifetime sinecure that in Canada was abolished by then-prime minister John Diefenbaker — overturned a woman’s right to choose and New York’s ban on carrying handguns, all in one week.

Meanwhile, for the past 2½ weeks, the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women has been reviewing the…