intimate partner violence

Laurel Collins says she hopes the polarized House of Commons will continue to put partisanship aside to pass her bill to criminalize coercive control this week, after hearing hundreds of personal stories about intimate partner violence.

Several women's groups are imploring the federal Liberals to abandon the idea of creating a new regime for an endangered person to seek a court order to remove firearms from a stalker or abuser.

A new report from Statistics Canada says one in three shelters for people fleeing abuse reported they were greatly affected in the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic did not stop a rising tide of reports of domestic violence, experts say, warning that the stress of life in lockdown continues to put victims at risk.

Victim services groups in the Greater Toronto Area and an assaulted women’s helpline for Ontario have seen three to four times more calls for emergency help since COVID-19 struck, while shelters struggle to expand capacity amid physical distancing constraints.

Canada's efforts to address intimate partner violence and its impacts have failed to make any appreciable dent in the country's domestic homicide rates, researchers suggested Wednesday as they called for a more nuanced national conversation on the issue.

A Crown prosecutor says testimony about former hostage Joshua Boyle's controlling, abusive nature should be admitted into evidence at his assault trial because it depicts a relevant pattern of behaviour.

Lawyers for Joshua Boyle will vigorously challenge the credibility of one of his alleged victims — his wife Caitlan Coleman, a Crown attorney predicted on Monday, March 25, 2019, at the outset of the long-awaited criminal trial for the man whose family was taken hostage in Afghanistan seven years ago.

Justice Minister Jody Wilson-Raybould introduced a massive bill on Thursday, March 29, 2018, aimed at tackling court delays and improving the fairness of the criminal justice system when it comes to Indigenous and other marginalized peoples.

The federal government is proposing major changes to the criminal justice system to address criticism that it's biased against Indigenous people and other marginalized groups, as part of sweeping legislation introduced on Thursday, March 29, 2018.