De-escalation, minimizing and acquiescing may not be words every woman can define, but are most definitely skills that almost every woman have mastered by their early adulthood. We have learned how to minimize situations that make us uncomfortable, laugh off unwanted advances, avoid endangering ourselves by angering a man, ignore catcalls and whistles when [...]
In the time it takes you to read this sentence, it’s pretty likely that a woman in Canada will be sexually assaulted and never tell police. In fact, about 460,000 women in Canada will be assaulted this year. That figure only speaks to the number of reported sexual assaults, we know and research shows that [...]
There has been much reported by local media this week about an arbitration ruling in favour of a Calgary woman who was repeatedly sexually assaulted at work by a male colleague. The assaults themselves and their life-changing impact on this woman and her family are truly horrifying. We must be equally indignant, however, at the [...]
