Simma Holt CM (née Milner, March 27, 1922 – January 23, 2015) was a Canadian journalist, author, and the first Jewish woman elected to the House of Commons of Canada.
Born in Vegreville, Alberta as Simma Milner, the sixth of eight children, Holt received a Bachelor of Arts degree, with majors in English and psychology, in 1944 from the University of Manitoba.
Sexism incidents included coworkers handing her photos of nude women and being told by her editor she would be fired if she again snuck into the male-only Terminal Club to cover a story.
[2] During a 1970 strike by Sun employees, Holt was a labour negotiator and vice-president of the Newspaper Guild and actively worked for the Vancouver Express.
In 2006, she publicly criticized Vancouver Mayor Sam Sullivan for seeking a court order to remove lengthy protests by Falun Gong from outside the embassy of China on Granville Street.
After purchasing what turned out to be one of Vancouver's notorious "leaky condos" in 1999, Holt waged a publicly vocal, seven-year legal action seeking financial compensation for repairs.