Femicide

• Motorist found covered in blood facing murder charge: Windsor police

  Police in Windsor, Ont., have charged a man with first-degree murder after officers found him covered in blood during a traffic stop.

  Crime

  Nov 13
  
• Liberals urged to increase penalties for intimate partner violence, murder

  Conservatives are pushing a private member's bill they say would combat intimate partner violence — just as a new report tracks how the problem has grown in recent years.

  Politics

  Oct 28
  
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• B.C. advocates push for femicide to be deemed a specific offence

  Advocates say femicide should be deemed its own specific offence in B.C. Femicide means the intentional act of killing women or girls due to their gender.

  Crime

  Aug 4
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• ‘Uphill battle’: Criminal Code must include definition for femicide, advocates say

  Advocates urge Ottawa to define femicide in the criminal code as more Ontario police use the term to describe gender-based killings.

  Crime

  Jun 8
• Ottawa woman killed, police believe it could be femicide

  Police are investigating the death of an Ottawa woman earlier this week as a suspected case of femicide.

  Crime

  Jun 3
• Colombian model killed days after Mexican influencer shot dead on livestream

  María José Estupiñán's death came less than a week after 23-year-old beauty influencer Valeria Marquez was killed by a man at the beauty salon where she worked in Mexico.

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  May 20
• Man charged with killing N.B. woman in intimate partner violence investigation

  The RCMP say a 31-year-old man has been charged with manslaughter and indignity to human remains in the death of 26-year-old Sarah Teakles.

  Crime

  Apr 22
• Ontario man charged with murder in latest case of femicide: Ottawa police

  Police in Ottawa have charged a man in connection to a fatal stabbing of a woman earlier this week in what they are calling a case of femicide.

  Crime

  Apr 3
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• Family of slain B.C. woman protest at Mexican consulate in Calgary: ‘I just want the truth’

  Kiara Agnew, 23, was killed while on vacation with her boyfriend on the Mayan Riviera in Mexico in March 2023.

  Crime

  Mar 23
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• Memorials held across B.C. for victims of femicide, violence against women

  Near downtown Vancouver, a group gathered at a monument for the 14 women killed by a gunman at Montreal's Ecole Polytechnique on this day 35 years ago.

  Crime

  Dec 6, 2024