Residents of the Kingsway-Fraser area in Vancouver say police are not addressing “predatory behaviour” from pimps and johns. The recently formed Cedar Cottage Neighbourhood Association is asking the city to enforce the laws that were brought in last year as part of Bill C-36. “We would like to see the police arrest the johns,” said [activist, Trisha] Baptie. “The right approach is to go after the demand. Because that’s what makes the communities unsafe.”
Twelve-year-old student at Franklin Community Township School Corporation in Indianapolis suspended because her jeans were “too tight.”
String of femicides in the Mexican Carribean downplayed by authorities. The Guardian reports:
“This latest surge in murders has renewed tensions between activists against gender violence, and government officials who accuse them of trying to derail tourism and economic progress.”
Federal judge taken off all cases on account of victim-blaming comments during a sexual assault trial. The Globe and Mail reports:
“Justice Camp, while a member of the Alberta Provincial Court in 2014, asked the 19-year-old alleged victim of a rape by an older, larger man, ‘Why couldn’t you just keep your knees together?'”