Canada’s Minister of International Development, Marie-Claude Bibeau, recently announced $97 million in funding for the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), in line with Canada’s “Feminist International Assistance Policy”. This funding comes in the context of 20 years of violent internal conflicts in the DRC. Currently, their...
The Liberal party released their gender-based violence strategy this month. The strategy aims to address issues ranging from investigating street harassment to focusing on Indigenous women, looking at impacts on LGBT communities to studying the potentially harmful effects of social media algorithms. It seems they tried to leave...
An article in the June 2017 National Geographic is excited about the prospect of advances in prenatal diagnostics. Extensive prenatal brain studies are occurring via MRI technology, with the goal of mapping neural connectivity to identify and understand potential developmental delays. It is thought that many long-term...
Too often the abortion debate tends towards extremes, and both sides try to "force" their choice. This can leave women feeling intimidated, pressured, and defensive. Sometimes the best thing to do is to clearly and objectively present all the options and let women decide for themselves. The video...
On October 19, 2016, our Members of Parliament voted down Bill C-225 (Cassie and Molly’s Law), a law that would have allowed additional charges to be laid against a killer who took the life of a woman he knew to be pregnant. The law was...
Alberta's NDP government has introduced a motion, M-514, to look into increasing abortion access in remote areas of the province. Alberta has many rural and northern communities where health care access is an on-going issue. Who's asking for increased abortion access? Apparently no one is actually asking for this...
Early in April, two of our staff had the honour of presenting as witnesses at the committee hearings for Bill C-243. Bill C-243 is a private member’s bill calling for a review of Canada’s national maternity benefits strategy. The Standing Committee on Human Resources, Skills and Social...
On this, International Women's Day, we do well to consider: what are we as a nation doing to address gender-based violence? Last week Canada committed $20 million to a hastily organized "International Abortion Fund" so that women in developing countries would be able to access abortion...
We live in an age when lawmakers repeatedly appeal to science when making policy decisions. Shortly after Justin Trudeau became Prime Minister, he led a large contingent of politicians and bureaucrats to Paris for a conference on climate change. He told reporters, “We’ll demonstrate that...
This past week Maryam Monsef , Canada's Status of Women Minister gave Planned Parenthood Ottawa $285,000 so they can use it to help women who face barriers to abortion. According to the Canadian Press, Minister Monsef believes that any barriers to reproductive choice constitute "gender-based violence"....
