Daphne Bramham: B.C. among the last to adopt gender-equitable budgets

Mitzi Dean recently took a ride on the bus along Highway 16 in northern B.C. and sat next to a mother and her child. They were taking a two-hour trip to visit Grandma.
Until two years ago, when the provincial government began subsiding the bus that connects the communities from the Alberta border to Prince Rupert, the only way Grandma could get to see her grandchild was by hitchhiking along the route that’s become known as the Highway of Tears. At least 18 women have disappeared or been mu