Violence Against Women Canada

• More funding for shelters needed to help domestic violence victims in Canada: report

  The report from Women's Shelters Canada calls for more funding to help increase the number of second-stage shelters, particularly in rural, remote, northern and Indigenous communities.

  Canada

  Sep 30, 2020
  
• ‘Pandemic of violence’: Calls mount for recognition of misogyny in Nova Scotia shooting

  When sharing a timeline of the Nova Scotia shooting, police didn't clarify — until asked by a reporter — that the gunman had assaulted his girlfriend.

  Canada

  Apr 26, 2020
  
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• What a national action plan on gender-based violence might achieve — if Canada gets it right

  “The services and levels of protection that women receive should not depend on their postal code, and that’s basically the situation now."

  Canada

  Feb 9, 2020
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• Women twice as likely to experience unwanted sexual behaviour in public: StatCan

  Those public places can include coffee shops, the street, shopping malls, public transportation, bars and restaurants.

  Canada

  Dec 6, 2019
• Shelters on the front lines help women flee violence — but they’re also in crisis

  Women’s shelters and transition homes are often the starting point for those fleeing violence. But many struggle to finance their life-saving services.

  Features

  Nov 25, 2019
• At least 78 women in Canada killed by violence this year — in just 6 months

  The cases of 78 women were recorded in one mid-year report that suggested the actual number of deaths is likely higher.

  Canada

  Jul 11, 2018
• 5 Ontario women have allegedly been killed by men in their lives in 2018 — and it’s only January

  Across Canada, there were 72 cases of intimate partner violence in 2016 that resulted in homicide — 57 women and 15 men were killed.

  Canada

  Jan 20, 2018