“People in crisis recognize people in crisis.” In the last week, news of the city of Vancouver’s decision to gradually end a yearly grant to Vancouver Rape Relief and Women’s Shelter resulted in emotions running high, with both sides calling the other discriminatory. Those against Vancouver Rape Relief believe its policies are transphobic, while VRR […]
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On Wednesday, the Canadian Femicide Observatory for Justice and Accountability released its inaugural report on femicide in Canada in 2018. As soon as they did, I was waiting for the barrage of “What about men?!?” comments to pour in. And pour in they did. Comments ranged from pointing out that more men than women are killed in Canada a
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Sometimes advocacy really does work! Women’s Shelters Canada has been advocating for the Standing Committee on the Status of Women to hear from more Indigenous women’s organizations, after only one such organization appeared as a witness during the nine scheduled meetings. As mentioned in our last blog, Sheila Malcolmson (NDP) brought forth a motion to
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As we head into an election year, now is the time for political parties to commit to ending violence against women in their electoral platform On December 6 every year, Canadians remember the 14 women killed for being women at the Ecole Polytechnique in Montreal on that day in 1989. Nearly 30 years later, not much has
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The last scheduled meeting of the Standing Committee on the Status of Women’s study of VAW shelters/transition houses took place on Monday, November 19. It was split into two one-hour slots: the first saw witness presentations from Eva Kratochvil, Survivor and Frontline Worker, Hiatus House; Anita Olsen Harper, Research Consultant, National Aboriginal Circle Against Family
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This week was scheduled to be the last week for witness statements on the study of VAW shelters and transition houses. Witnesses are listed at the end of this post. However, due to scheduling issues and a shorter eighth meeting, a final meeting is scheduled for later in November. Women’s Shelters Canada is deeply concerned
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Two more meetings occurred this week for the Standing Committee on the Status of Women’s study on VAW shelters and transition houses with several witnesses, listed at the end of this blog. Women’s Shelters Canada continues to be disappointed that the majority of witnesses so far have not been able to speak specifically to the
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This week saw two more meetings of the Standing Committee on the Status of Women for its study on VAW shelters and transition houses. The third meeting, on Monday, October 22, was broken into two one hour slots with two witnesses each. The first hour saw witness statements from Bonnie Brayton, National Executive Director of
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Read WSC’s Statement Here Welcome to our new blog! We plan to post several times a month about the work we are doing and the projects, studies, and conferences we’re involved in. Our first few posts will be about the House of Commons Standing Committee on the Status of Women’s study on the system of
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