Columnists
A woman and her son hold protest signs at the March for Our Lives sister rally in Denton, Texas. Image credit: Heather Mount/Unsplash
The deadly connection between mass shooters and domestic violence
Amy Goodman, Denis Moynihan | Two necessary steps to stop mass shootings are to deny men who abuse women at home the freedom they currently enjoy to buy and own guns, and to take violence against women seriously.
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Shelter workers offer help to those trapped in abuse during pandemic
Doreen Nicoll | Spousal abuse, also known as intimate partner violence, has nothing to do with love but everything to do with power and control.
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Teachers tell Ford to stop hurting the children
Marc Belanger, Derek Blackadder, C. Marie Ainsborough | RadioLabour's Canada Report: Teachers in Ontario are for students and against cuts to education -- an interview with ETFO president Sam Hammond.
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Making post-secondary education more expensive and other issues from RadioLabour
Marc Belanger, C. Marie Ainsborough, Derek Blackadder | Labour promotes North America's first paid leave for domestic violence. Ontario making university more expensive. Global unions campaign for free, quality education.
Columnists
Justin Trudeau speaks at the Equal Voice International Women's Day lunch. Photo: Adam Scotti/PMO
Trudeau gaslights Canadian women and ignores their safety
Matthew Behrens | For a self-proclaimed feminist prime minister, Justin Trudeau has utterly failed in his government's efforts to protect the national security of women.
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Femicide in the streets
Penney Kome | With the recent Toronto van attack and the Parkland shootings, the perpetrators seemed to be aiming at women. Femicide has become public.
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Krassimira Pejcinovski's murder shows that domestic violence is a predictable pandemic
Doreen Nicoll | There are several commonly known warning signs for intimate partner violence, and Pejcinovski's killer fit at least three of them.
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Majority of mass shootings connected to domestic violence
Amy Goodman, Denis Moynihan | The mass murder in Sutherland Springs, Texas, was a horrific crime. It was also horrifically predictable, and emblematic of the systemic problem we have with guns and violence in the United States.
News
The Wynne government wants to offer up to 17 weeks leave, but since it is all unpaid it will not help those who need it most
Critics say Ontario’s proposed domestic violence leave falls short
Meagan Gillmore | The Wynne government wants to offer up to 17 weeks leave, but since it is all unpaid it will not help those who need it most
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Ontario NDP bring domestic and sexual violence bill to debate
Doreen Nicoll | Bill 26, the Domestic and Sexual Violence Act unanimously passed second reading but has been in limbo since October 20, 2016.
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Today is the last day to help improve the domestic and sexual violence workplace accommodation legislation in Ontario
Doreen Nicoll | The Wynne government's Bill 148 only allows for two days of paid "personal emergency leave," which can be accessed for domestic and sexual violence. This is not good enough.
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Unions are at the fore of the struggle to give workers paid domestic violence leave
Meagan Gillmore | A 2014 study found that a third of respondents had experienced domestic violence. Of those, more than half said they'd experienced it at or near their workplaces.