Will next month’s long-awaited divorce law reforms make a difference?

It’s a massive failure of the courts, the legal profession, the police, and society in general to protect women subjected to gender-based violence.

When the revised Divorce Act goes into force on March 1, Canadians will begin to get an inkling of whether long-overdue legislative efforts at the federal level to update divorce rules and better protect victims of domestic violence will be effective in addressing this problem, writes Les Whittington.Photograph courtesy of Pexels

Opinion

BY LES WHITTINGTON

February 17, 2021

OTTAWA—One woman every six days is murdered by their intimate partner in Canada. Men account for 95 per cent of those accused of murder-suicide, with his intimate partner being the most likely victim. And the most dangerous time for a woman in an abusive relationship is in the months just after ...

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