Feds, Ontario must heed recommendations from inquiry into preventable murders of Ottawa Valley women

The inquest into the murders of Carol Culleton, Anastasia Kuzyk, and Nathalie Warmerdam showed that the justice system, the police, and probation officers basically failed the victims in every way imaginable.

The art installation Broken, by Dennis Josef Meseg, is pictured in Bonn, Germany. In 2021 alone, 173 women and girls were violently killed in Canada, with the vast majority of the accused being male, research shows. Unsplash photograph by Mika Baumeister

Opinion

BY LES WHITTINGTON

August 3, 2022

OTTAWA—Parliamentarians can expect to hear urgent requests this fall to finally do something about the shocking state of violence against women in Canada—a call for action fuelled by revelations of the repeated failures of authorities leading up to a triple femicide in Ontario. A coroner’s in...

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