OCRCC in the News

News and media articles featuring OCRCC and Ontario sexual assault centres.

  • Province will not renew $1M in funding to cut waitlists at rape crisis centres

    Two weeks before International Women’s Day, a network of sexual assault centres across Ontario received news that additional funding provided by the PC government to help reduce waitlists for counselling services [...]

    Published On: March 6, 2020

  • Government axes $1M funding boost for rape crisis centres

    The province has axed an additional $1 million in funding for the province’s 42 rape crisis centres, which are now warning that supports for survivors will have to be cut while [...]

    Published On: March 6, 2020

  • Government ends One-time Funding Resources for Ontario Sexual Assault Centres: OCRCC Responds

    A year ago, in the face of increased demands for service and crushing wait lists for supportive counselling to survivors of sexual assault, the Province of Ontario provided “$1 million in [...]

    Published On: March 4, 2020

  • ‘No one should have to wait’: Supports for sexual assault survivors

    The Toronto Rape Crisis Centre and Ontario’s 41 other sexual-assault centres are a lifeline to scores of survivors of sexual violence in Ontario. For one survivor who shared her story, meeting [...]

    Published On: February 19, 2020

  • Sexual assault centres struggle with limited funding as more women come forward to say #MeToo

    In Toronto, wait times for sexual violence counselling are around 11 months. The Avalon Sexual Assault Centre in Halifax stopped putting people on its waiting list when it topped 112 in April [...]

    Published On: February 11, 2020

  • Ontario’s revamped compensation program unavailable to victims of historical sexual crimes: OCRCC Responds

    The network of sexual assault and rape crisis centres across Ontario is demanding Ontario's attorney general reverse recent changes to victim compensation services. According to the Ontario Coalition of Rape Crisis Centres, [...]

    Published On: November 20, 2019

  • Victims left short by program changes: Ontario critics

    People working on the front lines to support victims of crime say Ontario’s changes to support programs will rob some victims some of vital counselling and “life-changing” funding. The government has [...]

    Published On: September 17, 2019

  • Statistics Canada: Almost 19% year over year increase in Sexual Assaults in Ontario

    Last week, Statistics Canada released recent findings of Incident-based crime statistics[1] in Canada. In these statistics, we can see that the prevalence of sexual assault in Ontario rose from 7,434 police-reported [...]

    Published On: July 29, 2019

  • Sexual violence crisis centre faces an uncertain future

    York Region’s only sexual violence crisis centre faces an uncertain future after promised provincial funding falls through. The Women’s Support Network of York Region, based in Newmarket and serving survivors of [...]

    Published On: March 8, 2019

  • Has #MeToo really made a difference?: NOW Toronto

    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 [...]

    Published On: January 24, 2019

  • 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 [...]

    Published On: November 22, 2018

  • 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, [...]

    Published On: November 6, 2018