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On December 3, 2005, women and men gather to remember the women we have lost to murder in Montreal on December 6th, 1989, in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, along Highway 16 in British Columbia, and throughout Canada and around the world.
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Here is a look at the impact of the Barbie doll, the distorted media portrayal of Pocahontas, violence against Muslim women, and of women who have committed violence.
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How does a batterer convince his spouse to stay? Why is it crucial that boys learn to feel their pain? Can you discuss violence against women in any classroom? How does the media desensitize children to the realities of violence?
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For many years male predators have targeted women in Canada’s poorest neighbourhood. Indigenous women in particular find themselves under siege.
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Official rewards for finding the killers of women have been withheld in the past, police have wrongly denied the existence of serial killing, laws have been changed without consulting the people they’re trying to protect, and British Columbia has been condemned by the United Nations for lack of action.
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The World Health organization now says violence is a number one health issue. Violence against women is being used as a tool of war more than ever before.
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Canadians are too polite. We need to wake up to the level of violence that is perpetrated every day against women, and disproportionately against Indigenous women, and break the silence that allows violence to continue.
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Men who act violently can change. We’re not alone when we suffer violence. And the secret to all kinds of change is love.