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WSC BlogcnwsEditor2022-11-23T18:40:46-05:00
cnwsEditor2023-06-28T09:26:02-04:00

Nova Scotia Mass Casualty Commission: The Last Recommendations Needed?

cnwsEditor2023-06-28T09:26:02-04:00June 27, 2023|

On March 30, 2023, the Mass Casualty Commission released its final report from its inquiry into the mass shootings in April 2020 in Portapique, Nova Scotia. Within its more than 3,000 pages and 130 recommendations [...]

cnwsEditor2023-03-16T21:54:35-04:00

WSC’s Kyla Tanner Talks New Second Stage Transitional Housing New Build Project

cnwsEditor2023-03-16T21:54:35-04:00March 7, 2023|

Kyla Tanner Last year, former Women’s Shelters Canada (WSC) Research and Policy Director, Krys Maki, gave us an exciting preview of the new Second Stage Transitional Housing (SSTH) New Build project. Made possible [...]

cnwsEditor2023-06-28T09:48:22-04:00

Workers supporting survivors of gender-based violence are demanding change

cnwsEditor2023-06-28T09:48:22-04:00December 6, 2022|

This article was written by Krys Maki, Director of Research and Policy. This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. While the world went into lockdown at [...]

cnwsEditor2023-03-16T22:08:05-04:00

Nova Scotia Mass Casualty Commission: Women’s Shelters Canada Attends the Mass Casualty Commission

cnwsEditor2023-03-16T22:08:05-04:00October 5, 2022|

At the end of August, WSC’s Kaitlin Geiger-Bardswich (Director of Communications, Development, and Grants) travelled to Halifax to appear on a participant consultation panel with other gender-based violence (GBV) organizations at the Mass Casualty Commission. [...]

cnwsEditor2023-03-17T12:25:17-04:00

How WSC is Commemorating the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation

cnwsEditor2023-03-17T12:25:17-04:00September 30, 2022|

Today, September 30, is the second annual National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. As a settler organization, staff at Women’s Shelters Canada have decided to not take the federal holiday as a day off work, [...]

cnwsEditor2023-03-16T21:56:13-04:00

Nova Scotia Mass Casualty Commission: When Will We Stop Blaming Survivors?

cnwsEditor2023-03-16T21:56:13-04:00June 27, 2022|

It’s a refrain survivors and those working to support survivors of domestic and sexual violence hear all the time

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