Cornwall - Mar. 9, 2012 - About 100 people were in attendance Saturday morning to locally celebrate International Women's Day 2012. The event at the Best Western was hosted by the Cornwall and District Labour Council. City Councillor and Labour Council President Elaine MacDonald was the MC of the event, and the keynote guest speaker was author and journalist Kathy Dobson. Her writing has appeared in numerous publications including the Globe and Mail and the National Post. She has produced short documentaries for CBC Radio as well.

She is the author of With a Close Fist that examines her and her families experience growing up in poverty in Point St. Charles, a slum in the City of Montreal.