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It’s easy to get discouraged if you care about fairness for women, isn’t it? The last little while seems to have been especially tough. The news of a sexual attack....

A woman can be smart, successful, capable and accomplished, but that doesn’t mean her partner will celebrate and support her. A woman can rise to the top levels of her....

“You must be exaggerating. He’s such a nice guy!” “You’re overreacting, as usual.” “You’re not abused. I’ve never hit you.” Too many of the women who come to Women’s Resources....

An Ottawa man believed to have recently killed his two children before taking his own life left a note insisting that he, not his ex-wife, was a victim of abuse....

It’s legislation we shouldn’t need, because Bailey McCourt should still be alive. Amid our anger and sadness at her death, and the deaths of so many women at the hands....

Some ideas about women are so ugly that it often feels healthier to ignore them than to confront them. Maybe we avoid calling out the perpetrators of these ideas because....

When Tracy Richardson, councillor for Ward 8 and deputy mayor of Kawartha Lakes, announced recently that she wouldn’t be running for re-election, it was both a shock and no surprise....

Our beloved thrift boutique is simply the greatest. Dedicated staff and 100 volunteers sort and display a wide range of quality clothing, accessories, housewares, toys, books, games and more, all....

If murder is already a criminal offence, why do we need to track the murder of women? If there’s already a name for the offence of one person killing another—homicide—why....

Our annual Marquee Event concert in March isn’t just our most important annual fundraiser, it’s one of the biggest such events anywhere in the area. If you’ve ever attended one....