Relationships

It’s not ‘divorce month.’ It’s ‘starting to think about divorce month.’

https://msmagazine.com/2025/01/08/january-women-divorce-month/

Lisa Raitt and husband Bruce Wood

‘The bottom fell out of the world’: Lisa Raitt’s story of navigating her husband’s young-onset Alzheimer’s

Lisa Raitt and her husband Bruce Wood When Lisa Raitt first joins our Zoom call, we make small talk and chat idly about the weather. “I’m in Cape Breton today,” she…

By Lisa Thibodeau

Lisa Raitt and husband Bruce Wood

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 youth…

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 30.…

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