Three London, Ont. women were among 62 victims of femicide in Ontario over the past year, something a local abused women’s shelter said is further evidence that gender-based violence needs to be treated as the epidemic that it is.
The list, released by the Ontario Association of Interval and Transition Houses (OAITH) and the University of Guelph, includes women, children, and gender-diverse individuals who were the victims of a gender-related killing by a man.
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The list, released by the Ontario Association of Interval and Transition Houses (OAITH) and the University of Guelph, includes women, children, and gender-diverse individuals who were the victims of a gender-related killing by a man.
The deaths are devastating, tragic, and preventable, said Jessie Rodger, the executive director of Anova, which provides shelter and supports to abused women and their children.
London city councillors declared intimate-partner violence and femicide an epidemic this past summer.
The move came in the wake of Jennings’ death, and in response to one of 86 recommendations made by an inquest examining the murders of Carol Culleton, Anastasia Kuzyk, and Nathalie Warmerdam near Ottawa in 2015.
The federal Liberals and Conservatives have expressed their support for a private member’s bill tabled earlier this year by a B.C.
NDP MP that seeks to amend the Criminal Code to make coercive control an offence.
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