Findings capture conditions before COVID-19 pandemic sent many into isolation
The statistics are sobering: 60 per cent of British Columbia residents know…
‘I didn’t believe this could happen to my mom either, but it did’
‘It’s a virtually unknown area, and the few stats or reports … we can only really scratch the surface of this’
The statistics are sobering: 60 per cent of British Columbia residents know…
Organizations see spike in severity of violence throughout provincial health emergency
Women experiencing intimate partner violence to benefit from Bridges for Women’s expanded offerings
Women’s Transition House Society named official cause for Goddess Runs
Randall Garrison calls for coercive and controlling behaviour to be criminalized
The law originated in the U.K. and is named after Clare Wood, a woman who was murdered in 2009 by a partner
Call volumes spiked almost immediately when swaths of Canada first locked down
Local shelter says factors aggravated by economic downturn, job losses
Sandy Merriman House, Cool Aid Society ask public to help out
Shelters also noted an increase and escalation in physical violence
Calls tripled in the spring in B.C. before levelling off in the summer
Data shows that one in 10 women is very or extremely concerned about possibility of violence during pandemic
MP Randall Garrison introduces private member’s bill
Palm towards camera, tuck thumb in and wrap fingers around
A gunman killed 22 people in a multi-hour shooting spree
The agency recorded 945 intimate partner homicides between 2008 and 2018
