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WARNING: This article contains details of suicide and abuse. Advocates for victims of domestic abuse are calling for the termination of a B.C. radio host over his comments on the suicide of a New York woman who said she was abused by her husband before her death. Mandeep Kaur died by suicide …
Read More »List of students alleging abuse at Sask. Christian school growing rapidly
The chorus of former students from a private Saskatoon Christian school with stories of abuse and degradation is growing. They include children and grandchildren of top officials from Christian Centre Academy and the adjacent Saskatoon Christian Centre Church. The school is now known as Legacy Christian Academy. The church has also …
Read More »Abuse and harassment survivors ‘silenced’ by non-disclosure agreements fight for change to B.C. law
WARNING: This article contains references to sexual abuse and may affect those who have experienced abuse or know someone affected by it. Not even the death of her father could free Susan MacRae from the legal restraints that prevent her from talking about the sexual abuse she allegedly suffered as a child. …
Read More »Mass shooting inquiry to examine gunman’s family violence, domestic abuse this week
The inquiry into the April 2020 mass shooting in Nova Scotia will learn more this week about the various forms of violence surrounding, and carried out by, the gunman Gabriel Wortman. Emily Hill, counsel for the Mass Casualty Commission leading the inquiry, said they are continuing to learn about what …
Read More »‘I never feel safe’: N.S. domestic abuse survivor calls for changes to family court system
Warning: This story contains accounts of intimate-partner violence A Nova Scotia mother who left Halifax to get away from her abusive ex-partner says police and the province’s family court system have failed her and her son by not taking their concerns for safety seriously. Mary escaped the abusive relationship a decade …
Read More »More women contact RCMP with allegations of abuse by retired Manitoba residential school priest
Warning: This story contains distressing details. At least two more women have come forward with allegations of abuse at the hands of a retired priest at Fort Alexander residential school in Manitoba. Maureen Fontaine, 67, is one of them. “I was a young age, and I had to go to …
Read More »Canada’s sport minister announces new measures to protect athletes from maltreatment, abuse
In an attempt to combat what Canada’s sport minister has called a safe sport crisis in the country, federal Minister of Sport Pascale St-Onge announced Sunday morning a number of new measures to hold sport organizations across the country accountable, with the ultimate goal of protecting athletes from maltreatment and …
Read More »Neighbours tried to warn police about Portapique gunman’s abuse, weapons
Long before he went on his murderous rampage in April 2020, two of Gabriel Wortman’s former neighbours saw “red flags” in his behaviour and were wary of everything he said and did. “He always put that perception out, ‘Hey, I’m easy going, likable,'” recalled George Forbes in an interview with the …
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