This June every donation to Luke’s Place increases our chances to win $10,000 through the Great Canadian Giving Challenge. The more often you give, the more chances we have.
We can give you 908 reasons to donate to Luke’s Place. That’s the number of women we served from April 2022-March 2023!
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Why Me? Why Now? Why Not? A provincial gathering of VAW advocates to talk and learn about feminist law reform advocacy and media engagement
Join Luke’s Place in Renfrew County on the first anniversary of the CKW femicide inquest for an evening and two days of exciting conversations, keynotes,
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Luke’s Place is proud to announce that Advocacy Director, Pamela Cross has been named to the Domestic Violence Death Review Committee (DVDRC) of Ontario.
The Ontario Domestic Violence Death Review Committee (DVDRC) was established in 2002 in response to recommendations that arose from two major inquests into the domestic homicides of Arlene May and Gillian Hadley by their former male partners.
We are thrilled to announce that Emily Murray who has been the Luke’s Place Legal Services Director since April 2022, is stepping into the position of Legal Director at Luke’s Place as of January 5, 2023.
Previously, Emily worked as a family law lawyer and as a panel lawyer for the Office of the Children’s Lawyer.
Thanks to YOU,
Ontario women were able to access the support they needed for their family law issues and receive important information about ongoing changes to court operations over the last year. This means that more women had a better understanding of their legal rights, the family court process, and their legal issues.
Thanks to YOU, Ontario women were able to access support with their family law issues and receive important information about ongoing changes to court operations and services over the last year.
As a result, more women had a better understanding of their legal rights, the family court process, and their legal issues.
(Durham Region, ON) – Several months ago, Luke’s Place Support & Resource Centre for Women & Children received the good news that it was receiving a one-year, $136,500 Resilient Communities Fund grant from the Ontario Trillium Foundation. On Monday, MPP Lorne Coe and MPP Todd McCarthy met with the group to hear more about how the grant is helping it recover and rebuild from the impact of COVID-19 to continue meeting the needs of people in the area.
Where 2020 marked rising to the occasion in the face of a global pandemic, 2021 challenged us to adapt to the new long-term realities it left in its wake.
For Luke’s Place, 2021-22 was a period of exciting growth.
Through our four areas of action – service to women, knowledge mobilization,
Over the three weeks of the recent femicide inquest held in Pembroke, Ontario, the five jurors read hundreds if not thousands of pages of exhibits and listened to the testimony of more than 30 witnesses who spoke to a broad range of issues related to the 2015 murders of Carol Culleton,
On September 22, 2015, three women in Renfrew County– Carol Culleton, Anastasia Kuzyk and Nathalie Warmerdam – were murdered by Basil Borutski, a man who had been involved with each of them in the past. This triple femicide shocked the rural community and made headlines across Canada.
In June of this year,
