Gender-based violence

CP174796101 Cutline: A courtroom sketch as Justice Maria Carroccia delivers her ruling on July 24, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Alexandra Newbould Alt photo text: A drawing of about nine people sitting and listening in the room.

Consent confusion and the Hockey Canada sexual-assault trial

Closeup of Carney’s face in profile, set against a black background.

Carney’s troubling silence on women and gender

Online harms need a gender-based analysis

Online harms need a gender-based analysis

Bikini-clad girl on the beach is holding a smartphone with the OnlyFans app on the screen. Everything but the phone is in soft focus.

Canada must end financial discrimination against sex workers

Failure to protect: the criminalization of survivors of intimate-partner violence

Taylor Swift wearing a white coat with black sleaves and an NFL logo on the sleeve.

Canada needs deepfake legislation yesterday

The little heart is fashioned out of plywood and is attached to a long piece of plastic with purple ribbons a couple of inches long hanging from it. The wooden piece would fit in the palm of your hand. The woman holding it has wraparound sunglasses and a white shirt. She’s standing in a row of women who are holding similar items. The mood is somber, with shadows and sunlight intermingling across the faces of the group.

Historic meeting of ministers needs to look at international human rights

Gender-equal cabinets have done little so far for women and girls living with male violence

Five adolescent girls are sitting on a soccer field, huddled around a young woman who is telling them something while holding a pen in her hand and pointing it at the girls. The girls are wearing red and white team shorts and loose tops.

Unintended consequences of the “Rule of Two” in the name of safe sport

Rape myths endure in judicial decisions

A dozen men and women cross at a downtown intersection in Toronto’s downtown, surrounded by tall buildings as cars and a streetcar drive past on a sunny day.

Big hopes for Toronto’s first gender equity strategy

Two police vehicles are parked as an officer watches evening crowds in downtown Toronto.

What happens when police commit crimes?

Government can protect women while preserving the defence of extreme intoxication

Notwithstanding extreme intoxication

When will Canada say enough is enough when it comes to femicide?

Data is a defence against femicide

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