women shelters

Robyn Hoogendam of Women’s Shelters Canada speaks in Ottawa in a Nov. 9, 2022 handout photo. A new report says staff at women’s shelters and transition homes across the country are feeling burned out, underpaid and overburdened with administrative work. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-Kaitlin Geiger-Bardswich

Burnout, turnover wracking Canada’s shelters in ‘Feminist Brain Drain’

Underfunding driving crisis in in women’s shelters across the country, new report finds

 

People take part in a demonstration to highlight violence against women in Montreal, Friday, April 2, 2021. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Graham Hughes

Gun regulation great, but doesn’t address root domestic violence drivers: advocates

“Violence in relationships is a social problem and most of it is learned behaviour”

 

People gather at the edge of the pond at the Salmon Arm campus of Okanagan College on Dec. 6 during the United Against Violence Against Women candlelight vigil held to mark the 1989 massacre of 14 women at Ecole Polytechnique in Montreal as well as to remember and bear witness to the women murdered and missing in the Okanagan-Shuswap and beyond. (Martha Wickett-Salmon Arm Observer)

Emotional vigil held on day police find remains of Shuswap woman missing for 5 years

Annual vigil pays respects to women killed in the École Polytechnique massacre and local women