April 2018 Volume 24, Issue 4

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Welcome to the APRIL issue of the National Justice Visit our website to access Network e-Update, a publication of the Canadian our new live chat service. A Resource Centre for Victims of Crime. PLEASE SHARE trained CRCVC staff member THIS FREE NEWSLETTER WITH YOUR COLLEAGUES will be happy to help. OR HAVE THEM SIGN UP TO RECEIVE IT DIRECTLY AT: http://crcvc.ca/en/newsletter/. Swedish man found guilty of ‘online’ rape has convictions This newsletter was written and compiled with the upgraded. Read the whole assistance of Alanna Bent and Louriecar Cabanayan; story here. Victimology post graduate students at Algonquin College. ‘Missing a Voice’ – Victims, advocates urge Liberals to Want to print the newsletter? name new ombudsman. Find the full article here. Canadian Resource Centre for Victims of Crime Visit: http://www.crcvc.ca Mosque-shooting survivors Email: [email protected] urge judge not to be lenient Phone: 1.877.232.2610 with Bissonnette. Read about it here.

TORONTO VAN ATTACK; TOXIC UPCOMING EVENTS MASCULINITY AND ISSUES OF IDENTITY AND RAGE THAT LEAD MEN TOWARDS Jackson Katz to speak at VIOLENCE Western University Come out for an evening with In the wake on the van attack on April 23rd, Jackson Katz speaking on where 8 women and 2 men were killed and 14 others “The Role of Educators and seriously injured, some media has attempted to Parents in Addressing address the issue of men’s violence against women. A Violence Against Women and writer from , Gary Younge said, the Girls”. atrocity “gives us yet another chance to reflect on the When: May 30, 2018 from destructive capacity of masculinity – not least because 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm it may have been the principal motive for this attack. Where: Althouse, Faculty of Alek Minassian is not known to have any strong Education Auditorium, religious affiliations. But according to his University of Western , feed, he identified with devotees of “” (short for 1137 Western Road, London “involuntarily celibate”), which is for straight men who ON N6G 1G7 “can’t have sex despite wanting to” and splits the world into Stacys (attractive women who won’t sleep For more information and to with them) and Chads (men who are sexually register, click here. successful).”

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Rebellion has already begun! We will overthrow all the When: May 11th, 2018 Chads and Stacys! All hail the Supreme Gentleman Where: 100 Street North Elliot Rodger!” Battleford, SK Click here to register or find In 2014, 22-year-old Rodger wrote a screed against, more information here. among other things, women and couples (particularly inter-racial couples), before killing seven people, Interpersonal Violence including himself, and injuring 14 in Isla Vista, Symposium California. “I don’t know why you girls aren’t attracted Join experts in the field of to me but I will punish you all for it,” Rodger stated in victims of violence for a 2-day a video uploaded before the rampage. “It’s an conference. injustice, a crime because … I’m the perfect guy and When: May 24th – May 25th, yet you throw yourselves at all these obnoxious men 2018 instead of me, the supreme gentleman.” Where: Montreal University Click here to register or find These men feel a deep sense of grievance. While most more information here. people avoid association with failure, these men are attracted to it. Their inadequacy is central both to 2018 International their identity and their rage. They are not the men Courthouse Dogs they want or need to be; they do not have the status Conference they feel was their birthright. This is the fault of others A 2-day conference all about and somebody, anybody, must therefore pay. professionally trained service dogs, and their handlers and While the desire to dominate and the embrace of many subjects in relation to failure may appear contradictory, they are in fact part them. of the same pathology. The rage stems from the fact When: September 27-28th that the very thing they feel entitled to – women’s Pre-Conference workshops on bodies, women’s lives, women’s obeisance – is not Wednesday, Sept. 26th available to them. They hate the thing they cannot Where: Hyatt Regency have. And of course they hate themselves for their Bellevue - 900 Bellevue Way inability to get it. NE, Bellevue, WA 98004 Younge also says, “If ever there was an illustration of how a system of patriarchy demeans and depletes us Registration will open mid- all, this is it. Unable to take advantage of the male May, and further details will privileges they believe they are owed, they feel become available on out inadequate and grow resentful, and a handful become Facebook Page as they get violent. Often awkward, shy and unconfident, they released. cannot meet the standards of machismo that patriarchy demands. They think feminism will destroy It’s Within Relationships them. But in fact it is their greatest chance of that I Will Heal: liberation, since the less women are forced to conform Supporting the journey of to preconceived notions of femininity, the more space kids and youth who have there is within masculinity for them to be themselves. experienced relational As such, they are not only the perpetrators of trauma misogyny but the products and, ultimately, the victims A webinar for anyone who has of it.” experienced childhood trauma from a trusted individual or Importantly, CBC radio also hosted a discussion with knows somebody who has. Francine Pelletier, a journalist and one of the When: May 23rd, 2018

prominent feminists whom Lepine had named Click here to register and for as one of his targets, and Julie Lalonde, a public more information. educator about women's rights, about society’s reluctance to talk about men’s violence against Victims and Survivors of women. Crime Week This year’s theme is While the trial process will no doubt shed more light “Transforming the Culture on the killer’s motives and ideology, we mourn the Together”. lives lost and will always remember: When: May 27th – June 2nd, 2018

Beutis Renuka Amarasingha, 45, of Toronto A federal symposium will be Andrea Bradden, 33, of Woodbridge held in the National Capital Geraldine Brady, 83, of Toronto Region on Monday, May 28, So He Chung, 22, of Toronto 2018. Register here. Anne Marie D’Amico, 30, of Toronto Mary Elizabeth Forsyth, 94, of Toronto International Justice and Ji Hun Kim, 22, was a student in Toronto Victims’ Rights Summer Dorothy Sewell, 80, of Toronto School Chul Min Kang, 45, of Toronto A bilingual course led by Munir Abdo Habib Najjar, 85, of Toronto several internationally renowned experts in the fields of criminology and law. A city and nation are coming together to stand in When: June 4th – June 9th, solidarity with the victims. Some have observed the 2018 city feels like a real community since the tragedy: Where: Université de united, caring, and strong. As Marcus Gee of the Globe Montréal and Mail remarked, “from the moment of the attack, Click here for more people began responding to this act of evil with acts of information, or here to good. They rushed onto the street to help the fallen. register. They raised money to help the victims and families.

They gave blood. They made their way to Yonge 16th Asian Postgraduate Street to leave flowers at that instant memorial wall. Course on Victimology, One local man ran out to buy cardboard sheets and Victim Assistance and markers so visitors could leave messages, too. These Criminal Justice (APGC) gestures of love and goodwill are helping to wash When: June 4th – 14th, 2018 away the taint of that afternoon.” Where: City University of

Hong Kong The Ontario Psychological Association has mobilized Deadline for registration is numerous psychologists in #Toronto to provide free or May 1st. Click here to register. low cost services to those affected by the recent attack. They will continue to update @ONThealth 16th International about available providers. Please contact Symposium of the World [email protected] for details. Society of Victimology

Victims and Victimization: What’s Up Walk-In provides free mental health Moving Towards an counselling, with no appointment or health card International Victimology necessary: information on their six Toronto locations When: June 10th – 14th, 2018 can be found at whatsupwalkin.ca. Where: Hong Kong

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Can you help? registration is March 31st. You can visit blood.ca to find the nearest clinic to Regular registration is from donate blood. Canadian Blood Services said it is April 1st to June 9th. Click here “closely monitoring the response effort in Toronto to to register. ensure patients affected by the collision receive blood and blood products as needed.” Both Sunnybrook Shelters of the Future: A hospital and General are treating victims. National Conversation Both hospitals take donations. Hosted by Women’s Shelters Canada, this will be a unique A fundraiser setup by Canada Zakat is partnering with opportunity for shelter and Toronto Foundation. This means that all funds raised transition house (TH) workers via this GoFundMe campaign will be transferred over to share and learn from their to #TorontoStrong Fund. Funds raised will be used peers. towards funeral expenses of the victims, as well as to When: June 13th – 15th, 2018 provide other support to the victims’ families, Where: Ottawa, Ontario survivors & first responders. Click here for more information or to register. Do you have information? The Toronto Police have created a hotline for North American Post witnesses or anyone with information to contact them Graduate Course on at 416-808-8750. A web portal has also been created Victimology, Victim for people to submit photos and videos. Assistance and Criminal Justice When: July 29th – Aug 5th, 2018 Where: Stockton University, MISSING AND MURDERED INDIGENOUS New Jersey WOMEN INQUIRY MOVES FORWARD Click here to register and for WITH TRUTH GATHERING PROCESS more information click here.

The National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered National Organization for Indigenous Women and Girls will hold two Institutional Victim Assistance 44th Hearings (part II) and two Expert Panel Hearings (part Annual Training Event III) in May and June 2018. The subjects the Chief When: August 20th-23rd, Commissioner and Commissioners will focus on will 2018 include human rights, government services, racism, Where: Jacksonville, Florida and policing. Keep an eye on the NOVA

website for event hotel The multi-day hearings, delivered through in-person reservation information and meetings, will include the participation of Parties with registration options coming Standing and will be open and accessible to the public. soon. The hearing dates and locations include:  May 14 – 17, 2018: Expert Hearing on Human Rights Framework, Quebec City, QC SNAPSHOTS  May 28 – June 1, 2018: Institutional Hearing on Government Services, location to be Victim says she’s ‘not the announced same person’ after vicious  June 12 – 14, 2018: Expert Hearing on Racism, sexual assault in Alberta , ON During September 2016, a  June 25 – 29, 2018: Institutional Hearing on 25-year old woman’s life

Police Policies and Practices, Regina, SK changed drastically. As this woman was walking to work In order to move forward with the Truth Gathering one morning, she was struck Process, the National Inquiry closed registration on from behind with a metal April 20th for family members and survivors pipe. She was then dragged participating in Community Hearings and Statement into an alley where she was Gatherings (Part I). To date, over 1,200 family sexually assaulted. members and survivors have imparted their truths to the National Inquiry through 15 Community Hearings She was beaten so badly that and 8 Statement Gathering events across the country. she had to learn how to walk again. Her head received There are approximately 500 family members and multiple skull fractures and survivors that are registered and still need to share broken facial bones. their truths. The National Inquiry is working hard to get to everyone who registered. When he was finished, the offender left her partially The Commissioners will continue to work toward naked and stuffed into a meeting the November 2018 final report deadline, as garbage can. She was left they have not heard anything from the federal with life threatening injuries, government regarding the two-year extension that put into induced coma for was submitted last month. Complete hearing details weeks, and has contracted a will be shared in the coming weeks as witness lists sexually transmitted disease. and schedules are finalized. There are times she wishes The MMIW Inquiry also announced this month the that she had been “finished appointments of Jennifer Moore Rattray as Executive off,” and she says that she is Director and Dr. Karine Duhamel as Director of “not the same person Research. anymore.” However, at times as low as this, she ______remembers that she is strong and that she will not give that CANADA FAILED REFUGEE VICTIM OF power to her offender.

ALLEGED SERIAL KILLER BRUCE This woman is more alive McARTHUR than ever, and this man has The Sri Lankan family of Bruce McArthur's latest not taken her will to live away alleged victim did not report him missing because they from her. She is a survivor. thought he was in hiding after the Canadian Crown prosecutor Erin Olsen government rejected his refugee application. Kirushna is calling for the court to issue Kumar Kanagaratnam, 37, came to Canada in 2010 as a 20-year sentence on the one of 492 Sri Lankans seeking asylum aboard the MV accused. Sun Sea. Read the full story here. McArthur, 66, was charged with first-degree in the death of Kanagaratnam this month. The alleged Emergency shelter serial killer is already facing first-degree murder upgrades will soon benefit charges in connection with the deaths of seven other victims of domestic men, all of whom, had ties to Toronto's Gay Village. violence in Saskatchewan The Government of Canada, In an emotional interview in Tamil, Kanagaratnam's the Province of

mother and cousin told CBC Toronto the family has Saskatchewan, and Meadow been reeling from the news since a cousin in the Lake Tribal Council are Greater Toronto Area phoned to tell them of working together to rebuild Kanagaratnam's death. "We've been looking for him Waskoosis Safe Shelter for two years," said Suthakaran Thanigasalam, (Waskoosis), a six-bedroom Kanagaratnam's cousin. "We need to know what facility, to ensure the safety happened to him. Why did it happen? We need to and security of women and know when he died." children fleeing domestic violence. In December, a family member wrote a Facebook post looking for Kanagaratnam who they said was living in The Governments of Canada Canada. Det.-Sgt. Hank Idsinga confirmed police have and Saskatchewan are jointly seen the post. But he would not comment on what contributing over $1.2 million police think happened to Kanagaratnam, only that to the shelter, which upon investigators have evidence linking him to Toronto as completion, will be late as 2014. Police previously released a photo of wheelchair-accessible, have Kanagaratnam, deceased, a move Idsinga described office and programming as a "last resort" to figure out who he was. space, and additional security precautions. An additional Thanigasalam, and Kanagaratnam's mother, $99,000 is being contributed Santhanaladchumy, say the family knew he was in to the project through Service Toronto and last spoke to him in late August 2015. Canada's Homelessness Kanagaratnam used to phone daily, but then the calls Partnering Strategy. stopped coming and when they tried to call him his phone wasn't working. Meadow Lake Tribal Council has been operating Waskoosis At a recent news conference, Idsinga said he believes Safe Shelter since 1992— Kanagaratnam was killed between early September among many other services and mid-December 2015. Police said Kanagaratnam's such as primary care, remains were found in a garden planter at a home on community development, Mallory Crescent, in northeast Toronto, where domestic violence outreach McArthur worked as a landscaper. and family support. Waskoosis offers emergency Sadly, Thanigasalam said the family never tried to file shelter to up to 21 women a missing person's report because they were scared and children fleeing domestic Kanagaratnam would be caught by the Canadian violence. government and sent back to Sri Lanka. Coalition Calls for Quebec Members of the Migrant Workers Alliance for Change, to Abolish Time Limits on Workers Action Centre and the Caregivers' Action Civil Sexual Assault Cases Centre imagine what might have been different for Lawyers, opposition parties, McArthur's latest alleged victim if the Canadian and survivors of sexual government granted permanent resident status more assault are uniting together readily. Syed Hussan, coordinator of the Migrant to abolish the time limit for Workers Alliance for Change, "Every step of the way, victims to take their offenders Canadian law, Canadian society and the government to court. failed him," Hussan said. He believes the problem was a result of current immigration rules that were created In Quebec, there used to be a by Liberal and Conservative governments over the time limit called the years and allow for a precarious temporary status. prescription period, in which a

victim of sexual assault must The result, he explains, is "vulnerability on top of begin legal proceedings vulnerability, that's neither moral nor just. I don't against their perpetrator. The think that's the society any of us want to live in." period was only 3 years. Hussan listed a number of sectors he believed are affected by instability, including farm workers, In 2013 the period was caregivers, other refugee claimants and international extended to 30 years, but this students. Most of these, he said, come through the is still not long enough. Last temporary foreign workers program, which according December Quebec’s to the government website, "Allows Canadian ombudsman Marie Rinfret employers to hire foreign nationals to fill temporary called for the time limit to be labour and skill shortages when qualified Canadian abolished saying, “If there is citizens or permanent residents are not available." one field where the time factor should be abolished, it is in this 'Exploitation' built into immigration system specific context, where Anna Malla of the Caregivers Action Centre asserts suffering extends over time many temporary foreign workers are afraid to ask for and often freezes the ability to help because they don't believe they have the same bounce back.” access to social services as permanent residents. With the temporary "immigration system there's New Study Exploring the exploitation built into that," she said. Extent of Brain Injuries in Victims of Domestic At the Workers Action Centre, Deena Ladd Violence in Vancouver said: "Canada has moved to a system of less and less Though in recent years folks being able to come into Canada with status and medical science has been the ability to have citizenship and moving into uncovering the damaging supporting themselves and their family in the way that effects of traumatic brain they would love to." There's a harsh lesson in injury for professional Kanagaratnam's death, she said. "What workers need athletes and the military, a is the ability to come to this country with dignity and UBC researcher is now respect and get status and not be held in limbo." gathering data on head trauma in a much-less- highlighted group: survivors of domestic violence in VICTIMS GRANT MAY BE MISSING Canada. PARENTS IN NEED DUE TO ELIGIBILITY Read more about it here. RULES: REPORT A federal grant for parents of murdered and abducted CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS: children may be inadvertently failing to provide Experiences of Sexual important financial help to those who are “more Assault Victims Who vulnerable economically,” says a newly released report Report to The Police that illustrates the government’s thinking on how to Researchers at Trinity eliminate barriers to the program. College, in Dublin, Ireland are conducting a study on the Since its launch in 2013, the program has spent less experience victims have with than one per cent of its annual $10-million budget on police when they report a grants, which the evaluation chalks up to a variety of sexual assault and/or rape. issues, including strict eligibility criteria. To participate, you must be

At the same time, administrative costs during the over the age of 18, and the four-year-period covered by the review totalled more sexual assault and/or rape than $2.8 million — about nine times the $315,350 in must have occurred while you grants handed out over the same period. were also over the age of 18.

The program aims to provide up to $12,250 to parents The survey is all done online whose children have been killed or have gone missing and can be completed here. as a result of a probable criminal offence in Canada. Victims must be under 18, parents neither working nor Toronto Police Establish receiving employment insurance benefits, and the Committee to Review how offence less than a year old. The government also Missing Persons Cases are limits payments under the program to within one year Handled of the incident and requires parents to have earned at The TPS Board has named least $6,500 in the preceding 12 months. several individuals to sit on a new committee, which will Police, government and victims services officials review how missing persons interviewed for the federal evaluation made public this cases are handled. The month argued for dropping the minimum earnings committee comes in the wake requirement, raising the age limits for children and of the Bruce McArthur case. making funding available for up to three years after an incident. The committee will consist of, police board member Ken The strict eligibility criteria, coupled with a lack of Jeffers; Sara Mainville, a public awareness about the grant, have hindered lawyer; Monica Forrester, the uptake, particularly for Indigenous families that are at engagement co-ordinator for greater risk and have lower incomes, the evaluation Maggie’s Toronto Sex says. Workers Action Project; and Shakir Rahim, a board A government source with knowledge of the file said member with the Alliance for the Liberals are looking at changing all the criteria South Asian AIDS Prevention flagged in the evaluation. The Liberals had promised (ASAAP). over the summer to make changes to the program, but have yet to act. This committee will focus on how police handle missing Between 2013 and 2017, only 29 of 50 applicants persons cases as a whole. received the grant. Recipients were mostly female, 35 This will include an to 44 years old and lived in urban areas mainly in examination of the impact of Ontario, Quebec and Alberta. A slight majority were implicit bias, including around part of a couple. race or sexual orientation, might have on how officers Rejected applicants, on the other hand, tended to be investigate missing persons single and unemployed people who earned less cases. income during the year before the incident than those that received the money, according to the evaluation. CRCVC Board member The reports’ authors’ caution against drawing any hard wins AWARD OF conclusions from the numbers, given how few parents DISTINCTION have applied for and received the grant since it launched in January 2013.

The federal evaluation is the latest in a string of

critical reports on the program created by the previous Conservative government, which estimated annual funding of $10 million would help 1,000 families each year. But the evaluation questions whether that figure would ever be met, “considering that the incidence of murdered and missing children cases is low in Canada.”

Three-quarters of missing children are runaways, the report says, and most are cleared within one week. A second study cited in the report found on average four cases of child abductions over a 40-year period. And Statistics Canada data cited in the evaluation has shown between 40 and 60 children were victims of homicide in Canada in the last 10 years.

The report says the program is unlikely to achieve “significant economy of scale” because the grant can “only provide support to a limited number of Congratulations to our Board individuals” and some fixed costs to run the program member, Carolyn Solomon, may remain high relative to the funding given to who recently won the parents. Attorney General’s Victim Services Award of Distinction Annual spending on administering the fund has seen a for her advocacy since her steep decline since 2013 when there was “significant son Kevin’s murder in 1997. investment that was made in start-up activities,” Carolyn has been a long-time including a computer system to process applications and payments. In 2013, administrative costs totalled Board member for CRCVC, as almost $1.4 million; by 2017, that figure was well as serving as a member $191,112. and the Chair of the Victims Advisory Committee to Correctional Services Canada and Parole Board of Canada, FEDERAL GOVERNMENT INTROCUDES Ontario/Nunavut region for 10 years. BILL C-75 TO TACKLE JUSTICE SYSTEM

DELAYS AND ADDRESS INTIMATE Manitoba launches new PARTNER VIOLENCE resource In the summer of 2016, the Supreme Court delivered YOU HAVE OPTIONS: HELP an unequivocal call to action. It called on all criminal AFTER SEXUAL ASSAULT justice system actors to undertake real, The government of Manitoba transformative change. It called for an end to the has released a resource for “culture of complacency” plaguing our courts. Bill C-75 victims of sexual assault is the Trudeau government’s response to that across the province. This challenge. resource acts as a guide for defining what sexual assault Bill C-75’s most extensive reforms are focused on the is, knowing your rights as a bail system. Bill C-75 will improve the bail system in survivor of sexual assault, the several ways. It will direct the police and judiciary to process if you wish to report follow a “principle of restraint,” instead of imposing and the options available to

burdensome conditions that set the accused up for do so, and counselling and failure without improving public safety. It will also support for healing. require the court to consider the circumstances of accused from vulnerable, marginalized and Indigenous The guide tries to explain populations, and to ensure that any conditions what sexual assault is in imposed are necessary for public safety and the clear, simple terms. It administration of justice. includes that someone should not feel pressured, coerced, At present, the only option for the police – other than or not understand what is ignoring the breach – is to lay a fresh criminal charge being agreed to because they against those who violate bail conditions. Bill C-75 will are high or drunk, or empower the court in those cases to issue a warning, unconscious. It is very vary the bail conditions or revoke bail. This new tool important for a victim to will result in many fewer such cases in the system. understand that it doesn’t matter what they were Bill C-75 also seeks to address intimate partner wearing, if there was alcohol violence. Repeat offenders will find it more difficult to involved, or if they invited the obtain bail and face higher penalties on conviction. In offender to their home; is not bail court, for example, a reverse onus would be put their fault. There is nothing on repeat abusers to prove why they should be that a victim says or does released − rather than on the Crown to make a case that warrants them to be for keeping them locked up. sexually assaulted.

Another significant proposal is to modernize the In terms of a victim’s rights language of the Criminal Code. The more inclusive after a sexual assault, they “intimate partner” would replace “spouse” and have the right to receive “common-law partner,” and the definition would be information and support, broadened to include past partners. According to which can be provided by Statistics Canada, between 2005 and 2011, more than Manitoba Justice Victims half (54 per cent) of all domestic-violence court cases Service workers located involved violence between dating partners. Spousal throughout the province. This violence accounted for 46 per cent. The violence in resource also provides an almost one quarter of cases occurred after a breakup. explanation of how the process will generally go if a “There has been a tendency to minimize [dating] victim were to report the violence in the past, because people aren’t cohabiting crime to police; whether it is − they’re not trapped by mortgage payments and in person or over the phone. children and locks on the door,” Prof. Peter Jaffe of University of Western Ontario said. The update sends There is a lot of information a “profound signal” that these are equally serious about what to expect when crimes. reporting to the police; a number of safety planning The bill also proposes increasing the maximum penalty tips, as well as information for repeat domestic abusers, and would clarify that about physical wellbeing and sentencing provisions aimed at making intimate- mental wellness. Check out partner violence an aggravating factor applies to both this comprehensive new current and former partners. It also proposes to resource here. recognize strangulation as an elevated assault, alongside assault with a weapon and assault causing bodily harm. SPOTLIGHT ON

RESEARCH Prof. Jaffe said strangulation is a risk factor for escalating violence − citing a 2008 study out of the “I Think It’s Re- United States that found women who are victims of Victimizing Victims Almost choking as a form of violence are four times more Every Time”: Police likely to be killed. Research has shown that many Perceptions of Criminal femicide cases are the result of escalating, long-term Justice Responses to violence, with the vast majority being “predictable and Sexual Violence preventable,” Prof. Jaffe said. Researchers from Carleton University looked into how “Criminal-law reform alone cannot protect women − it police perceive the criminal is too little, too late,” said Prof. Sheehy, from justice system when it comes University of Ottawa. “We need police and parole to victims of sexual assault. officers who take this form of violence seriously and The researchers used data enforce the criminal law we already have. We need from 70 semi-structured family lawyers and courts who are prepared to ‘see’ interviews and two focus and respond to this violence in their custody and groups with sex crime access decisions.” She also hopes to see more investigators to explore police investments in counselling and support services − ”as interpretations of the well as in women’s social, economic and political obstacles to achieving justice equality, in order to make a dent in the structural in cases of sexual violence. inequalities that keep women from safe exit and freedom from violence.” If you wish to review the Bill, Read the abstract and it can be found here. methodology here. You can email us for access to the full CRCVC LAUNCHES NEW DROP-IN article. SUPPORT PROGRAM FOR LOSS TO VIOLENCE

Funded as part of Victims and Survivors of Crime Week 2018, the CRCVC is pleased to announce a monthly "LOSS TO VIOLENCE" drop-in support group. This group is open to family members of homicide victims. It launches May 30th from 7-9pm at our offices. Please RSVP if you will join us.

Feel free to check out our Facebook page to keep updated and for more information.