Family and friends of Inuit artist Annie Pootoogook state that the week before her death, she was fleeing her boyfriend of eight years, William Watt. Pootoogook’s body was found in the Rideau River…
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Yesterday the Government of Canada announced the commissioners to head the public inquiry into missing and murdered Indigenous women. “For over a decade, the families of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls…
Last week marked the opening of the Downtown Eastside women-only market, running every Saturday on Columbia street. The Summer Fair is run by the Downtown Eastside Women’s Centre (DEWC), and was created…
I’ve had more than my fair share of unsolicited comments from fellow cyclists over the years, and they have one thing in common: They all come from men. In 2014, I was…
On June 21, the University of British Columbia’s Vice President of External Relations announced that novelist Steven Galloway is no longer employed as a professor in the Creative Writing Department. After an…
On June 13, Educating Girls in Rural China (EGRC), a registered Canadian charity dedicated to sponsoring girls and young women in impoverished areas of rural china through their high school and university…
Angela Marie MacDougall is a long-time anti-violence worker, the Director of Vancouver’s Battered Women’s Support Services, and a Remarkable Women award winner in 2014. Jess: How did you get involved in the…
From one rapist to another: R. Kelly thinks the rape allegations against Cosby are “just strange”: “When I look on TV and I see the 70-, 80-, 90-year-old ladies talking about what…
Sweden’s prime minister, Stefan Löfven, responds to a string of 38 reported sexual assaults and rapes at a teen music festival in Stockholm: “Whatever the motive we have to work more with attitudes…
Since it’s the season of New Year’s resolutions, I thought I’d share a few coping strategies I used in 2015 to stay nearly sane as a woman who’s genuinely interested in women’s…
Sign this petition against extraditing a victim of domestic abuse back to the states where she faces roughly 40 years of imprisonment for protecting the life of herself and her child. Here’s…
Oscar Pistorius found guilty of the murder of Reeva Steenkamp as South African court accepts appeal to overturn manslaughter conviction. Currently under house arrest after spending only one year of his original…
Diane Matte is a feminist community organizer, a front-line anti-violence worker, and a member of Concertation des Luttes Contre l’Exploitation Sexuelle (CLES) in Montréal. Jess: Can you start by telling us how…
A judge has sentenced former Subway pitchman Jared Fogle to 15 years and eight months in prison for paying for sex with girls as young as 16 and receiving child pornography produced…
“Sex is very often a challenge” says Justice Robin Camp during a sexual assault trial. He will now be undergoing gender sensitivity training. Heather Brunskell-Evans of The Conversation holds that, contrary to…