Safe spaces available for people leaving violence at home
In a world where we are isolated at home, what happens when home is a place of violence, intimidation, threats and fear?
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Honourable Selina Robinson
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Sunday, Dec. 6, 2020, marked the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women, the day we pay our respects to 14 engineering students and staff who were murdered at École Polytechnique in Montreal in 1989 solely because they were women.
It’s hard to believe it’s been only four months since the world as we knew it changed drastically.
June is Pride month, an event steeped in history that carries with it joy, pain, anger and profound importance for so many people in B.C. each year.
In a world where we are isolated at home, what happens when home is a place of violence, intimidation, threats and fear?
Every week in British Columbia, an estimated 1,000 women are physically or sexually assaulted. These assaults happen at work, at school and at home. They happen in communities of every kind – urban and rural. And they need to stop.
Tomorrow is the first day of Gender Equality Week in Canada — a week driven by a vision where people of all genders and gender expressions are treated fairly and have equal access to opportunities.
Pride brings communities together throughout our province in honour and celebration of the LGBTQ2S+ community’s hard-fought journey to attain the human rights and freedoms so many others take for granted.
In recent years, I’ve talked to countless workers and young couples who told me they were leaving the province because they couldn’t afford to buy a home and raise a family in B.C.
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