OCRCC in the News

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

  • 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 [...]

    Published On: October 26, 2018

  • Sexual Assault Survivors know Dr. Blasey Ford’s impossible burden

    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 [...]

    Published On: October 1, 2018

  • Count Us In: Women will vote on June 7

    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 [...]

    Published On: May 31, 2018

  • 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 [...]

    Published On: February 5, 2018

  • 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 [...]

    Published On: June 8, 2017

  • 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 [...]

    Published On: February 5, 2016