Rosalie Abella strides down the hallways of the Supreme Court of Canada during her final days on the bench.Courtesy of Melbar Entertainment Group Rosalie Abella can claim a remarkable number of firsts. She was the youngest judge in Canadian history when, at just 29 and pregnant, she was appointed to the Ontario Family Court in 1976. She was the first person to coin the phrase “employment equity” in the landmark 1984 Royal Commission on Equality in Employment. She was the country’s first female Jewish Supreme Court judge. And when she stepped down from that bench in 2021 (not to retire,...