The #MeToo movement surged in the fall of 2017. But it hasn’t exactly changed everything. When it comes to sexual assault in general, the glass is both half full and half empty. The #MeToo movement has had a massive impact…
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Category: OCRCC in the Media
Ontario’s Rape crisis centres continue to await promised funding
Rape crisis centres don’t yet know if they will receive additional funding promised by Ontario’s previous Liberal government earlier this year as part of a gender-based violence strategy. Deb Singh, of the Toronto Rape Crisis Centre/Multicultural Women Against Rape, said Wednesday the government…
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Sexual assault centres are overwhelmed in the #MeToo era
In Waterloo Region, a woman was visiting her doctor’s office when she noticed a sign and phone number for the Sexual Assault Support Centre. She went home and called the number, and shared that she was sexually abused as a…
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#SurvivorsCan’tWait: Ontario rape crisis centres still awaiting funding promised
OCRCC Ontario Coalition of Rape Crisis Centres
Posted in OCRCC Activities, OCRCC in the Media, Uncategorised
Included in the Ontario gender-based violence strategy was up to $14.8-million over three years to increase the capacity of current Sexual Assault Centres — as well as open new ones in communities where none currently exist. The Sexual Assault Centre…
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Tagged with: #MeToo, #SurvivorsCantWait, counselling, Education, sexual assault, sexual harassment, support
Ontario: Won’t Say If They’ll Honour Funding Bump For Rape Crisis Centres
Last week, NDP MPP Suze Morrison rose in question period to ask the Ontario Progressive Conservatives if they would honour the previous government’s gender-based violence strategy, which included a promise to increase funding for rape crisis centres by 33 per…
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Tagged with: #MeToo, #SurvivorsCantWait, counselling, Education, sexual assault, sexual harassment, support
Sexual Assault Survivors know Dr. Blasey Ford’s impossible burden
OCRCC Ontario Coalition of Rape Crisis Centres
Posted in Campaigns & Education, OCRCC in the Media, Uncategorised
Testimony in a sexual assault case – which relies on a survivor’s willingness to provide it – has the power to make an unknown and often serious incident visible. Without the victim’s story, it can remain a secret, hidden forever.…
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Count Us In: Women will vote on June 7
OCRCC Ontario Coalition of Rape Crisis Centres
Posted in OCRCC Activities, OCRCC in the Media, Policy & Political Action
Count Us In: Women will vote on June 7 This article was written by Pamela Cross, Lieran Docherty, Amanda Dale, Farrah Khan, Marlene Ham, Lenore Lukasik-Foss (of OCRCC) & Margaret MacPherson, and appeared in the Globe and Mail on May 30,…
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Before #MeToo, victims lost everything
This article by OCRCC Coordinator, Nicole Pietsch, appeared in The Globe & Mail. A cursory look at your social-media news feed in the past several weeks may seem to suggest the growing list of celebrities and other high-profile men being…
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Jailing a sex assault victim: This is not what justice should look like
This article by OCRCC Coordinator, Nicole Pietsch, appeared in The Globe & Mail. Popular understandings of sexual assault reflect the shattering impact it can have on the lives of victims. They also reflect the public’s trust in the criminal justice…
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Tagged with: Sexual assault trials
Don’t dismiss Ghomeshi’s accusers over their after-the-fact behaviour
This week saw two witnesses testify in the Jian Ghomeshi trial. Both witnesses are women who shared their descriptions of being romanced – and then suddenly, allegedly slapped, choked or otherwise assaulted − by the former radio host. The locus…
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