Canadian feminist lawyer and women’s advocate
The level of public and media interest in intimate partner violence (IPV) is higher than ever. In particular, individuals and municipal governments across Ontario are keenly engaged in thinking about how they can support implementation of the CKW (aka Renfrew Continue reading What now?
As I wrote last week, mandatory charging policies intended to protect survivors of intimate partner violence have proven to be highly problematic. Despite police training on domestic violence and attempts to ensure that they focus on identifying the primary aggressor, Continue reading Time for a review, part two
When Farrah called the police for help during an assault by her husband, Paul, she had no idea that she would be the one to be charged. Paul was coercively controlling towards Farrah, often threatening to withdraw his sponsorship of Continue reading Time for a review: part one
Here we are, once again, facing December 6th, the National Day of Remembrance and Action, instituted in 1991 to commemorate the 14 women killed in the 1989 Ecole Polytechnique mass shooting. But one minute of silence, one day when Canadian Continue reading Remembering & taking action