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Let’s change how we talk about this form of gender-based harassment. A lot of movies we loved when we were younger might make us cringe now—the bad hair, the dated....

We’re helping survivors of trafficking make it home. Our Kawartha Lakes community is a wonderful place. It also has aspects that many of us don’t know about, and that we....

November 2022 You may be familiar with the term “Femicide”.  Femicide is a hate crime broadly defined as the intentional killing of women or girls because they are female. It....

Victoria’s is a refuge for women and their children When women arrive at Victoria’s Women’s Shelter and realize that they are now truly safe, they disappear for the first few....

As we’ve noted in this space before, sex trafficking does happen here in Kawartha Lakes. Some of those who end up having to perform sex acts for money against their....

The idea that someone could force another person to undergo sexual acts for money against their will is so appalling that most of us just don’t want to think about....