intimate partner violence

An NDP MP 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.  Laurel Collins says legislators from across party lines have supported her private member’s bill, which seeks to criminalize […]

New data from Statistics Canada shows a disturbing trend in Saskatchewan when it comes to family violence and intimate partner violence. Saskatchewan has the highest per capita rate of this type of violence, with 732 reported cases of intimate partner violence for every 100,000 people.  The family violence number is similar with 730 cases of […]

Recent numbers from Statistics Canada show a rather disturbing trend for Saskatchewan. According to the numbers, Saskatchewan’s rate of intimate partner violence is more than double the national average, in addition to having the highest rate of domestic homicide per capita. Crystal Giesbrecht with the Provincial Association of Transition Houses and Services of Saskatchewan (PATHS) […]