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Opinion Pieces by WSC
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- Geiger-Bardswich: ‘But Did He Hit You’ The Parallels Between the ‘Freedom Convoy’ and Domestic Violence, Ottawa Citizen, 5 February 2022
- Surge Capacity Isn’t Just for Health Care, Gender-Based Violence Sector Needs Support Now, Toronto Star, 21 December 2021
- Talking About Violence Against Women Shouldn’t Inspire Misogyny, Huffington Post Canada, 31 January 2019
- Not Much Has Changed Since The Ecole Polytechnique Massacre, Huffington Post Canada, 6 December 2018
Media About WSC’s Work
- Education top of mind as St. John’s lawyer prepares for N.S shooting inquiry, CBC News, 17 February 2022
- When getting home safely isn’t safe enough for women, The Message, 24 January 2022
- Experts hope new report can serve as roadmap for national action plan on violence against women, The Globe & Mail, 22 June 2021
- After decades of talk, national action plan to protect women finally in the works, CBC News, 3 February 2021
- How a team of 5 managed a ‘historic’ boost to Canada’s domestic violence shelters, CBC News, 8 December 2020
- Small group connected women’s shelters with millions in pandemic funds, The National, 7 December 2020
- The double pandemic: COVID-19 and gender-based violence, City News, 30 November 2020
- Women facing more violence amid coronavirus pandemic: national survey, Global News, 25 November 2020
- Abuse of women increasing during pandemic: report, Radio Canada International, 25 November 2020
- Emergency funding for women, families fleeing violence is a temporary solution, experts say, The Globe and Mail, 12 October 2020
- Money starting to flow to women’s shelters across Canada, CBC News, 9 April 2020
- Rogers is partnering with Women’s Shelter Canada, Breakfast Television, 7 April 2020
- Here’s How IKEA Canada is Helping Women and Children, insauga.com, 25 April 2019
- Women’s shelters do more with less, seek help, Radio Canada International, 3 May 2019
- Shelters in Canada are turning away women due to lack of resources, funding: studies, The Canadian Press, 1 May 2019
- Rowan House Society visits Ottawa conference, High River Times, 4 July 2018
- How Men are Taking a Stance on Violence Against Women, The Ace Collective, 28 June 2018
- Local women’s shelter goes to Ottawa, Medicine Hat News, 19 June 2018
- Reps from Odyssey House return from National Women’s Shelters Conference, Everything Grande Prairie, 18 June 2018
- We need men’s voices – and wallets – to help women in domestic crisis, The Globe & Mail, 13 June 2018
- Online resource offers safe havens, Halifax Citizen, 28 May 2018
- Ottawa to start collecting data on women’s shelters, The Toronto Star, 24 November 2016
- Canadian Shelters Forced to Turn Away Majority of Women and Children in Need, The Globe & Mail, 28 April 2016
- Many women’s shelters turning away women due to overcrowding, CP 24, 28 April 2016
- 73% of Canadian women and children who seek emergency shelter are turned away: survey, Global News, 28 April 2016
- New online tool seeks to help women escape domestic abuse, CBC News, 4 June 2015
- New website connects abused women to shelters across Canada, The Canadian Press, 4 June 2015
- Disturbing snapshot of women’s shelters, The Toronto Star, 19 March 2014
Media Quoting WSC
2022
- Overwhelmed and underfunded, women’s shelters say without overhauling the system, they risk turning away more survivors, Globe and Mail, 22 April 2022
- Shelters for abuse victims report effects of COVID-19 on operations to StatCan, CTV News, 15 April 2022
- Inside the Fight for Survivors Facing Gender-Based and Intimate Partner Violence, Elle Canada, 15 March 2022
- ‘Shadow pandemic’: Waits for domestic violence, sexual assault counselling in Manitoba on the rise, CBC News, 31 January 2022
2021
- Court to hear appeal of Alberta woman’s 18-year sentence for killing abusive husband, CBC News, 22 June 2021
- Alberta shelter takes innovative approach to domestic violence: Focus on the male perpetrators, The Globe & Mail, 26 April 2021
- Policy Talks Podcast: The Shadow Pandemic, iAffairs Canada, 12 March 2021
- No place to go or hide: A deeper look into how vulnerable Montreal women are trying to survive, Global News, 11 March 2021
- ‘Like a pandemic within a pandemic’: Shelters call for support as violence against women rises amid COVID-19, CTV News, 10 January 2021
2020
- The pandemic is “undoing” women’s physical and financial security, Policy Options, 10 December 2020
- COVID-19 exacerbated violence against women. Frontline workers want essential service funding, CBC News, 6 December 2020
- Brockville mourns ‘a beautiful soul’ lost to domestic violence, CBC News, 25 November 2020
- Toronto writer introduces ‘adult’ Degrassi series with charity read through, Toronto.com, 2 September 2020
- The hidden horror of police domestic violence in Nova Scotia, CBC News, 26 August 2020
- The other pandemic we’re ignoring, The Globe & Mail, 21 May 2020
- Minister says COVID-19 is empowering domestic violence abusers as rates rise in parts of Canada, CBC News, 27 April 2020
- N.S. mass murder shows the public threat of domestic violence, say experts, CTV News, 26 April 2020
- Are you a victim of violence at home? Here’s how to get help amid COVID-19, The Toronto Star, 25 April 2020
- Uber Offers Free Rides for People Fleeing Domestic Violence During COVID-19 Pandemic, Global Citizen, 20 April 2020
- Forced to stay home with their abusers, Canadian victims of domestic violence must ‘choose between two pandemics’, The Toronto Star, 20 April 2020
- Gender-based violence is on the rise in Canada because people are in quarantine, Freshdaily, 18 April 2020
- Violence Against Women Expected to Increase During COVID-19 Pandemic in Canada, Global Citizen, 10 April 2020
- Coronavirus: Trudeau announces $40M for women’s shelters, $10M for Indigenous women and kids, Global News, 4 April 2020
- Women’s advocates fear an uptick in domestic violence from COVID-19, CBC News, 24 March 2020
- Self-isolation directives increase risk for women facing domestic violence, experts warn, The Globe & Mail, 23 March 2020
- Isolation an unsafe option for women facing domestic abuse, CBC News, 20 March 2020
- No place safe to go: Calls for more long-term women’s shelters in Canada, CBC News, 7 March 2020
- Women, children turned away from shelters in Canada almost 19,000 times a month, CBC News, 5 March 2020
- What will it take for Canada to confront its femicide crisis? Equal Times, 21 February 2020
- Refugee adjudicator says woman’s choice to keep baby means rape never happened, Global News, 11 February 2020
2019
- Shelters on the front lines help women flee violence — but they’re also in crisis, Global News, 25 November 2019
- Why isn’t violence against women an election issue? Global News, 29 September 2019
- Women’s shelter in Saskatoon closes its doors, Global News, 27 May 2019
- Victims of domestic abuse face danger when trying to leave: experts, CBC News, 12 May 2019
2018
- Fallout from Greyhound Departure, Winnipeg Free Press, 10 July 2018
- How cyberviolence is threatening and silencing women, Policy Options, 14 June 2018
- Toronto attack déjà-vu: lessons from the misogynist Montreal massacre, Maclean’s, 1 May 2018
- ‘Where do you turn to?’: Sask. project aims to help gender diverse people access women’s shelters, CBC News, 28 March 2018
- Consent in 2018, Western Gazette, 8 February 2018
2017 and earlier
- GTA women’s shelters feeling housing market pressures, Global News, 31 August 2017
- Think abused women should ‘just leave’? Then give them somewhere to go, TVO, 24 August 2017
- Liberals to spend $77.5-million on centre to study gender-based violence, The Globe & Mail, 19 June 2017
- Gender-based violence strategy includes millions for centre of excellence, National Post, 19 June 2017
- What homelessness looks like for women in Canada, The Globe & Mail, 29 March 2017
- Canada, U.S. bring feminism vs. family values to UN meeting on status of women, The Canadian Press, 16 March 2017
- Leaving An Abusive Relationship, Schulman Law Firm Blog, 25 January 2017
- Osborne House’s actions dangerous, disappointing, other shelter leaders say, CBC News, 9 December 2016
- Budget could boost number of spaces in women’s shelters, The Toronto Star, 28 March 2016
- A tale of two terrors, Now Toronto, 4 October 2015
- Will the dialogue about abuse translate to financial support? The Globe & Mail, 10 November 2014
- Feds admit more needs to be done to help domestic violence victims; Tories vote down national plan, Global News, 27 May 2015
- We are failing the victims of domestic violence, The Globe & Mail, 11 May 2015