Posts Tagged ‘murdered women’
Femicide is the crisis we’re all ignoring
Luke’s Place Legal Director, Pamela Cross, talks with Sarah Boesveld, senior writer of Chatelaine, in a podcast about femicide. There’s been an increasing focus on violence against women in recent years, but that hasn’t resulted in a drop in the number of murders. What factors are at play and why hasn’t all our talk about…
Read moreResponse to a murderer’s letter: Challenging journalism on violence against women
Letter by Luke’s Place Legal Director, Pamela Cross, to the Ottawa Citizen: There are a number of important questions that arise from the recent article in the Ottawa Citizen entitled “Triple-murder accused Borutski likens himself to Samson in letter from jail.” Perhaps the most obvious and troubling question is why the Ottawa Citizen would solicit…
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