Consent and Yes Means Yes

2016-08-08T14:06:49-06:00August 8th, 2016|Our View|

August brings the end of summer and starts a countdown to the beginning of school for all types of students. For many first-year university students, it’s an exciting time in their lives with the beginning of their post-secondary education and their first steps into adulthood. But the start of university brings the highly anticipated, controversial [...]

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YWCA BLOG: We must all take steps to end sexual violence

2014-01-23T08:54:59-07:00January 23rd, 2014|Our View|

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 [...]

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