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A Joint Statement From The Toronto GBV/IPV Working Group On The Elimination Of The Minister For Women And Gender Equality Canada

April 1, 2025

A Joint Statement From The Toronto GBV/IPV Working Group On The Elimination Of The Minister For Women And Gender Equality Canada. Women’s rights and safety are non-negotiable. As professionals working […]

News

Snap Election Called: WomanACT Calls for Strong Commitments to Gender Equity and Violence Prevention

March 25, 2025

PRESS RELEASE: TORONTO, ON – On Sunday, March 23rd, 2025, a federal snap election was officially called, with Canadians set to go to the polls on April 28, 2025. Since the […]

News

Mind the Gap: The Motherhood Penalty and the Future of DEI in Canada

March 10, 2025

TORONTO, ON – At WomanACT, we train community, corporate, and government partners on the challenges women and gender-diverse people face in the workplace. A key part of this involves helping participants […]

News

Community Advocates Call on Ontario to Declare Intimate Partner Violence an Epidemic as the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence Begins

November 25, 2024

TORONTO, ON – WomanACT stands with community advocates to call for the Ontario government to take decisive action by passing Bill 173, formally declaring Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) an epidemic. As the global 16 Days […]

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Mandatory Charging Policies and the Criminalization of Intimate-Partner Violence Victims in Canada

July 3, 2024

Eden Hoffer is a PhD student in the Faculty of Information and Media Studies at Western University. Her doctoral research focuses on how mothers who are intimate partner violence victim-survivors are re-victimized and/or […]

Opinion

The Gender Pension Gap and Equal Pay

April 16, 2024

In Canada, the gender pension gap is a growing factor of senior poverty that disproportionately affects older women and reduces their well-being, in terms of health and economics. The impact […]

Opinion

City of Toronto’s Budget for 2024

January 16, 2024

WomanACT’s 2024 Pre-Budget Submission Violence against women is not only a human rights violation but has devastating physical, emotional, social and economic consequences for women. Housing, homelessness, and intimate partner […]

Opinion

Uniting For Change: National Day for Truth and Reconciliation Sheds Light on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women

September 27, 2023

As the nation prepares to observe the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, we emphasize the critical importance of this day in shedding light on the heartbreaking issue of missing […]

News

Financialization of Purpose-Built Rental Housing

July 7, 2023

WomanACT’s submission for the National Housing Council’s Review Panel on the Financialization of Purpose-Built Rental Housing. Financialization is a growing trend toward the use of housing as an investment to […]

News

Improving responses to older women’s experiences of violence

June 15, 2023

Older women are disproportionately affected by violence. Older women are victims in 58% of family violence cases in Canada[i] and are twice as likely to be victims of intimate partner […]

Opinion