Policy & Political Action
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 ...
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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 ...
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Gender-based violence: the importance of affordable, accessible childcare
Canadian research shows that “there is a direct link between economic empowerment and gender-based violence. Women with domestic violence experiences ...
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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 ...
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Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls: “pervasive, immediate and urgent”
As women’s advocates, we know that the threat of violence continues to loom too large as a reality in the ...
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Ontario Coalition of Rape Crisis Centres (OCRCC) Responds to Attack at synagogue in Poway, California and other targeted attacks
Ontario Coalition of Rape Crisis Centres (OCRCC) acknowledges and condemns the targeted violent attack at a Chabad synagogue in Poway, ...
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Ontario Coalition of Rape Crisis Centres responds to the Student Voices on Sexual Violence Survey findings
Sexual violence can happen anywhere. Yet colleges and universities in Canada are home to those who are at the highest ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Government spending cuts impact Indigenous programming in Ontario: OCRCC Responds
The Ontario Coalition of Rape Crisis Centres (OCRCC) responds with concern to recent government spending cuts impacting Indigenous programming in ...
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