Sabia, Laura Villela

▪ 1997

      Canadian feminist leader who rallied more than 30 women's lobbying groups that pressured Canada into establishing the Royal Commission on the Status of Women, which resulted in the founding in 1972 of the National Action Committee on the Status of Women; Sabia was also a successful broadcast journalist and columnist whose outspoken views often sparked controversy (b. Sept. 18, 1916—d. Oct. 17, 1996).

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