On June 9, 2022, Luke’s Place Legal Director, Pamela Cross, was interviewed as a key witness into the inquest into the 2015 triple femicide in Renfrew County for an episode of CBC’s Front Burner. The episode, entitled The reality of intimate-partner violence in rural Canada also featured CBC Ottawa reporter,
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Luke’s Place Legal Director, Pamela Cross, is participating in the Inquest into the deaths of Carol Culleton, Anastasia Kuzyk and Nathalie Warmerdam.
Earlier today, she presented a report, Forty-four percent: A short history of intimate partner violence before the jury as part of a panel of intimate partner violence experts.
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Firearms can bring about deadly consequences for women and children in cases involving intimate partner violence. We united with other feminist organizations in opposing Bill C-21 and call on parliament to enact legislation that adequately addresses gun control in such cases.
On May 16, 2022, the National Association of Women and the Law (NAWL) submitted a letter to The Honourable Marco Mendicino and The Honourable Marci Ien regarding Firearms controls and violence against women on behalf of Luke’s Place,
We continue to support Bill C-233 as it moves to Third Reading. Luke’s Place Legal Director, Pamela Cross, and Legal Services Director, Emily Murray, submitted a discussion paper to the Standing Committee on the Status of Women regarding Bill C-233 and the importance of judicial education on intimate partner violence.
Presented by Pamela Cross, Luke’s Place Legal Director, on May 10, 2022 at 3:30pm.
Thank you for this opportunity to appear before you to talk about Bill C-233.
I do so on behalf of Luke’s Place Support and Resource Centre in Durham Region, where I am the Legal Director.
We are thrilled that Bill-C-233 passed Second Reading on Friday and has been referred to the Status of Women Committee for debate.
As we explained in our previous blog post, a central component of this Bill involves judicial education on the issue of intimate partner violence.
This brief was jointly submitted by the Barbra Schlifer Commemorative Clinic, Luke’s Place, and Women’s Shelters Canada to the Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights.
Barbra Schlifer Commemorative Clinic (“the Clinic”) is the only Clinic of its kind in Canada, providing specialized counselling, legal, and interpretation services. The Clinic has extensive expertise representing and serving women and gender-diverse people who have experienced intimate partner and domestic violence.
We are embarking on an exciting project and hope you will join us. With funding from Women and Gender Equality Canada (WAGE), we will increase the capacity of feminist organizations across Canada to engage in systemic law and policy reform related to gender-based violence and women’s equality. We will also support organizations – including our own —
(Durham Region, ON) – On Tuesday April 26th, local MPP Lorne Coe met virtually with the team at Luke’s Place to congratulate on receiving critical family violence pandemic recovery funds, with a $132,000 Resilient Communities grant from the Ontario Trillium Foundation awarded in 2021. The Resilient Communities Fund was developed to help non-profit organizations recover and rebuild from the impact of COVID-19 to continue meeting the needs of Ontario communities.
