‘Breaking the cycle’: MPs study intimate partner violence explosion amid COVID

In the first six months of 2021, 92 women and girls were killed, 14 more than in the same period the previous year, the Canadian Femicide Observatory reported.

Liberal MP Anju Dhillon introduced her private member's bill, C-233, on Feb. 7, in reaction to the surge of intimate partner violence cases that erupted during COVID-19. A similar public bill from Conservative Senator Pierre-Hugues Boisvenu is making its way through the Red Chamber.Screenshot courtesy of ParlVu

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BY ALICE CHEN

February 16, 2022

Amid what experts call an ongoing shadow pandemic of intimate partner violence, a House Status of Women Committee study is aiming to take a wide-ranging approach that will answer the question of where exactly government funding needs to go to tackle this endemic problem. “The pandemic has clearly...

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