violence against women Archives

Promising Young Woman: Some call it triggering, many find it empowering

Critics and activists debate the director Emerald Fennell's controversial revenge fantasy, which some have called a triggering trauma drama

Jan 19, 2021

Radheyan Simonpillai

PM marks École Polytechnique massacre with pledge to follow through on assault weapons ban

The Liberals have banned some 1,500 models of assault-style firearms but those advocating a total ban says it doesn't go far enough

Jan 19, 2021

NOW Staff

Silence leads to more violence in abusive relationships

It takes an average of seven attempts before a woman leaves her abuser for good – but once she leaves, her chances of being murdered increase nine-fold

Jan 19, 2021

Doreen Nicoll

Doug Ford’s five bucks for violence against women

I was raising money for the Toronto Rape Crisis Centre after our funding got cut by the province leaving a paltry $1 million funding boost to be divided between 42 centres in Ontario, but he seemed skeptical

Jan 19, 2021

Hillary Di Menna

What International Womens Day means to Toronto feminists

Promising Young Woman is a spiked #meToo-era cocktail mixing elements of rape revenge fantasy, black comedy and trauma drama that.

Jan 19, 2021

Michelle da Silva

Year In Review 2018: #MeToo marshals its collective strength

Powerful men continue to be called out for their bad behaviour by the global movement reborn a little over a year ago to expose sexual violence against women – we’ve only just seen the beginning

Jan 19, 2021

Michelle da Silva

COVID-19

Best Movies on Netflix