“I did not expect this situation to get worse, but that is what we’re seeing… What we see is that the justice system is not treating women’s safety as though it’s public safety.”
Gwen O’Reilly, Executive Director, Northwestern Ontario Women’s Centre (CBC Thunder Bay, Nov 27 2024)
In a recent CBC News article, Billie Jo Barrett of Thunder Bay, Ont., calls for changes within the justice system to help survivors of intimate partner violence seek justice. She also wants Ontario to join several other provinces and territories that have declared such violence an epidemic.
Thunder Bay’s rate of police-reported intimate partner violence is among the highest in Canada: 551 per 100,000 population in 2022.
Advocates say besides being symbolic of how important the issue is, declaring intimate partner violence as an epidemic would result in more resources being allocated to front-line service providers, like women’s centres, victim services and the courts.
Read the full CBC article here
See also:
- Domestic violence survivor shares calls of action to help others seek justice (CBC Thunder Bay, Nov 27, 2024)
- Words mean nothing without action against intimate partner violence: women’s centre (TBNewswatch, April 12, 2024)
- Ontario could declare intimate partner violence an epidemic (CBC: The National, April 11, 2024)
- It’s time for Ontario to declare intimate partner violence an epidemic (Luke’s Place, April 4, 2024)
- City declares intimate partner violence an epidemic (TBNewswatch, Sept. 26, 2023)
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