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As of today, 95 municipalities in Ontario have declared intimate partner violence to be an epidemic, in support of the first of the jury’s 86 recommendations. These declarations are largely the result of hard work by VAW organizations in each community –
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(Renfrew County) – Violence against women advocates from across Ontario will gather in Barry’s Bay, Renfrew County, on Friday June 28th to mark the second anniversary of the Culleton, Kuzyk, Warmerdam (CKW) femicide inquest.
The event will open in the Opeongo Seniors Centre with a panel presentation by three advocates involved with the inquest —
Mandatory charging policies, introduced over 40 years ago, take the responsibility away from survivors for deciding whether to lay criminal charges in cases of intimate partner violence (IPV). Police are directed to lay charges where they believe there is a reasonable likelihood of conviction. The hope when these policies were first introduced was that they would increase survivors’ safety,
Join us on Friday June 28, 2024 from 3:30-6:30pm EDT for a community discussion and vigil marking the second anniversary of the CKW inquest verdict.
We invite survivors, family members, those who have advocated for implementation of the recommendations, media, members of the public who want to make their communities safer for everyone to join.
The first of 86 recommendations from the 2022 inquest into the murders of Carol Culleton, Anastasia Kuzyk, and Nathalie Warmerdam (CKW inquest) was for Ontario to formally declare intimate partner violence (IPV) an epidemic. In the nearly two years since the jury released the recommendations, survivors and their advocates have repeatedly called on the Ontario government to implement the numerous recommendations directed at them,
At Luke’s Place, we support women and their children who have left abuse and are engaged with the family law/court process through both direct service and system change work. Through this work, we have developed a deep understanding of the many ways different legal systems intersect with and affect women’s family law experiences.
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The first of 86 recommendations from the 2022 inquest into the murders of Carol Culleton, Anastasia Kuzyk, and Nathalie Warmerdam was for Ontario to formally declare intimate partner violence (IPV) an epidemic. Since the recommendations were released, 94 of 444 Ontario municipalities have taken up this recommendation and declared IPV an epidemic.
At the end of 2022, Lanark County became the first Ontario community to declare Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) an epidemic. This came as a result of significant advocacy following the Culleton, Kuyzk and Warmerdam inquest in 2022.
Luke’s Place Advocacy Director, Pamela Cross, and the Mayor of Mississippi Mills, Christa Lowry,
As we have previously explored in our blog, coercive control is a term that describes a pattern of behaviours, including psychological abuse — which itself can encompass such things as intimidation, demeaning and insulting treatment, verbal abuse, threats, gaslighting, surveilling and stalking — as well as social isolation and financial abuse.
