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1975—International Women’s Year, as designated by the United Nations—had just come to an end when a notice appeared at the Ottawa Women’s Centre, calling for a meeting of women interested in starting a locally-based women’s newspaper. The notice was posted by Patty Gibson, a young woman who had just moved to Ottawa and couldn’t believe there wasn’t a feminist newspaper in the nation’s capital.