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Tara Graham says her family is speaking out because her mother, Brenda Tatlock-Burke of Nova Scotia, was the victim of intimate partner violence.

RCMP in Nova Scotia say the deaths of two people in their 70s this week in Cole Harbour was an incident of intimate partner violence.

The bill would require continuing education for new provincial court judges on topics like intimate partner violence, sexual assault, systemic racism and other topics.

Manitoba may soon require new provincial court judges to take continuing education on intimate partner violence, sexual assault, systemic racism and other topics.

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Two women have been identified as Durham Region’s latest homicide victims in what police are calling a case of intimate partner violence.

Some Manitoba shelters supporting women and girls fleeing domestic violence say demand for their services has increased drastically in the last few years.

Women and girls remain the primary victims, but the number of cases where men and boys are the victims appears to also be growing, new data shows.

Police said the death of Jennifer Zabarylo, an employee of the Royal Canadian Navy, is being considered a 'femicide' as it 'occurred in the context of intimate partner violence.'

The council of a town where a mother and children were found dead is writing to the provincial government asking it to declare intimate partner violence an epidemic.

George Kenneth Curtis, 44, is charged with second-degree murder in the death of Cheryl Sheldon, and police say the two were known to each other.

An Ontario mother who was killed in front of her children at a park in the nation’s capital is another case of femicide, Ottawa police say.

Norbert Budai has been given a life sentence for killing his estranged wife and setting her on fire. He will face deportation to Hungary if he is ever granted parole.

A vigil to honour the Ottawa woman killed in what police are calling a devastating case of femicide is planned for Tuesday evening.

While the recent slaying of an Ottawa mother in a park is bringing more awareness to the term femicide, advocates say it’s an epidemic that is not new to our country.

Nicholas Gravel appeared briefly at the courthouse in Salaberry-de-Valleyfield, west of Montreal, in connection with the killing of Kelsey Watt, 29.

The 4B movement stands for no heterosexual marriage, no childbirth, no dating and no heterosexual sexual relationships.

Barrie police are becoming the second police force in Canada to pilot a virtual call response program for non-emergency calls.

The lightning fast passage of the bill introduced by the opposition NDP came less than an hour after the premier told reporters he didn’t think the legislation was necessary.

New Brunswick's police oversight agency says an RCMP officer fatally shot an Indigenous man who the Mounties say was carrying weapons when he approached the pair on Sunday.