Femicide

• ‘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.

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  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
  
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• 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
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• 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
• 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
• 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
• ‘Name what things are’: Recognizing ‘femicide’ 35 years after the Montreal Massacre

  On Dec. 6, 1989, a man motivated by a hatred of feminists shot and killed 14 women and injured 13 other people at the Montreal engineering school.

  Canada

  Dec 5, 2024
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• ‘We need justice’: Family of slain B.C. woman speaks out over domestic homicide case

  Vanessa Terry's romantic partner, 36-year-old Frederick Paul Charlie, is charged with second-degree murder in her death.

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  Nov 28, 2024
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• ‘No more femicide’: Vigil held in B.C. to remember 16 women killed in 2024

  The Vancouver Rape Relief and Women's Shelter is calling for increased welfare support for women and harsher penalties for those convicted.

  Crime

  Nov 25, 2024