Relationships

Coercive control

Coercive control must be criminalized in Canada to protect women

It started slowly, insidiously, and incrementally. I had taken a job overseas as a communications professional and volunteer working with disenfranchised inner-city yo…

Coercive control

How losing my husband inspired me to be vulnerable

I was at my daughter's dance recital when I got the news that would change our lives: My husband, Harry, had cancer. Harry and I met in Germany when I had just turned …

By Cathy Thorpe

A journey that no one should have to face

We know that gender-based violence is a problem, and we want to support survivors in our lives, but it's an issue shrouded in stigma and silence. Too many people who expe…

By The Canadian Women’s Foundation

Young women are facing ‘alarming’ rates of intimate partner violence

A new report by the World Health Organization (WHO) is shining a light on a troubling statistic: by the age of 20, nearly 25 per cent of all young women in relationships …

By Lisa Thibodeau

Joyful divorce parties, repurposed rings: There’s a new approach to marking a marriage’s end

https://www.thestar.com/life/joyful-divorce-parties-repurposed-rings-theres-a-new-approach-to-marking-a-marriages-end/article_2b655754-24ef-11ef-9d8d-6bb1440dfdb5.html

Trolls are citing an ‘Oxford study’ to demean Asian women in interracial relationships. But it doesn’t actually exist

https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jun/12/asian-women-dating-white-men-fake-oxford-study

Will Japanese women be able to keep their maiden names after marriage? Major lobby demands change

https://toronto.citynews.ca/2024/06/11/will-japanese-women-be-able-to-keep-their-maiden-names-after-marriage-major-lobby-demands-change/

Young women are telling each other to ‘date rich’. How terrifyingly retro

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/jun/09/young-women-are-telling-each-other-to-date-rich-how-terrifyingly-retro