Opinion: Reforming the Police Act is an opportunity to prioritize violence against women
The British Columbia Special Committee on Reforming the Police Act has just finished its first stage of consultation and is set to meet in the upcoming weeks with individuals and […]
Vancouver Rape Relief’s letter of support to J.K. Rowling
Dear JK, We are the oldest anti-rape centre in the country and operate a transition house for battered women and their children. Our organization is familiar with the backlash you […]
Press Release: Supreme Court Decision of a Re-trial of the Man who Caused Cindy Gladue’s Death is Good, but overall Judgment is Disappointing
Earlier this morning, the Supreme Court of Canada delivered its decision in the case of Barton v. Her Majesty the Queen, that Bradley Barton – who by his own admission, caused Cindy Gladue’s […]
Opinion: It’s Time to Let the People Judge the Judges
In recent years, media reports about trials in sexual-assault cases across the country exposed judges’ ignorance about sexual assault laws, about Parliament’s intentions behind the laws and the Supreme Court […]
Advocates call on province to take more action on International Women’s Day
“If the government will provide Guaranteed Livable Income that will allow women to have dignified lives… It will improve the situation in general, but will allow women to escape a lot of abusive situations in particular.”
Opinion: Who Could Have Saved the Children?
It’s been just over 10 years since the murders of Christian Lee, age 6, and his family by his father in Oak Bay, BC. The subsequent inquest and jury recommendations […]
Opinion: The Criminal Justice System is Failing Women
We, the women who work in rape-crisis centres, didn’t need the #MeToo campaign to know how common it is for women to experience sexual assault and rape. Being a girl […]
Press Release: Vancouver Police Department Enables Men to Buy Women in Prostitution
It has been two years since the Canadian Parliament passed the law to criminalize buyers of sex. For the first time in Canadian criminal law, the purchase of sexual services […]
Opinion: Fighting back on men’s violence against women
Starting in the late 1960s, women came together in consciousness-raising groups to reveal their individual experiences to each other. Through these discussions, women realized that violence against women is a […]
Opinion: Inquiry needs feminist perspective
In a recent article (“Canada’s missing women inquiry to benefit from B.C. experience, say feds”, Vancouver Sun, July 3), both Minister of Indigenous and Northern Affairs Carolyn Bennett and former judge Wally […]