Intimate Partner Violence

• Femicide rates in B.C. have reached critical levels, report finds

  The report, released by Battered Women's Support Services, was based on research conducted in 2023 with frontline workers and victim-survivors across B.C.

  Crime

  Dec 2
  
• Electronic monitoring program expands throughout Manitoba: justice minister

  The Manitoba government says it's expanding its electronic monitoring program to rural communities after a success launch in Winnipeg this summer. 

  Crime

  Nov 29
  
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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.

  Crime

  Nov 28
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• ‘Don’t want to rush’: Ontario holds steady on not declaring intimate partner violence an epidemic

  Politicians on both sides of the aisle stood for a moment of silence to honour the victims of intimate partner violence in a brief moment of unity in Ontario on Monday.

  Canada

  Nov 25
• Toronto man gets life sentence for beating girlfriend to death in west end home

  Andrew Gerber has been sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole for 12 years after he admitted to viciously beating his girlfriend.

  Crime

  Nov 22
• N.S. election: Gender-based violence solutions absent in campaign talk, advocates say

  A Nova Scotia organization that provides transitional services to women is calling on political leaders to pay more attention to gender-based violence.

  Politics

  Nov 21
• Woman dead, husband in custody following overnight homicide in Oshawa

  A 48-year-old woman is dead following an overnight homicide in Oshawa, Ont., and police say her 41-year-old husband was taken into custody and charged with first-degree murder.

  Crime

  Nov 17
• Woman’s family wants it known her death by ex-RCMP officer was intimate partner violence

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

  Canada

  Nov 7
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• Cole Harbour, N.S. deaths result of intimate partner violence, RCMP say

  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.

  Canada

  Nov 5
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• Manitoba judges’ education bill could help domestic violence survivors, advocate says

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

  Politics

  Oct 31