Violence and abuse in society

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Skating on Thin Ice

Skating on Thin Ice exposes the culture of toxic masculinity in professional hockey and suggests how sport and society can change the narrative on sexual assault and violence.

Why is it that professional ...

Crying Wolf

By (author) Eden Boudreau
Categories: Memoirs

It's a tale as old as time. Girl meets boy. Boy wants girl. Girl says no. Boy takes what he wants anyway.

After a violent sexual assault, Eden Boudreau was faced with a choice: call the police and explain ...

Armer la rage

Armer la rage est une charge contre la culture du viol, la violence familiale et une société qui, plutôt que d’apprendre aux femmes à contre-attaquer en cas d’agression sexuelle, préfère les ...

Code White

When health care workers call a Code White, it’s an emergency response for a violent incident: a call for help. But it’s one that goes unanswered in hospitals, clinics, and long-term care homes across ...

Walking Away from Hate

As a troubled teen, the doctrine of white supremacy supplanted the values of Lauren Manning’s middle-class upbringing, and she traded suburbia for a life of violence and criminality on the streets of ...

Resilience Is Futile

Resilience is Futile is a page-turning true story of being stalked by an ex-partner. Award-winning feminist advocate Julie Lalonde, “Mixes humour and horror, irony and moments of acute, brutally honest ...

Une profonde blessure

The author documents the consequences of sexual abuse by members of the clergy and encourages the victims to walk the path of healing. He analyzes the causes, the necessary spiritual conversions and structural ...

Keetsahnak / Our Missing and Murdered Indigenous Sisters

In Keetsahnak, the tension between personal, political, and public action is clear as the contributors look at the roots of violence and how it diminishes life for all. They create a model for anti-violence ...

Abuse or Punishment?

At one time, the use of corporal punishment by parents in child-rearing was considered normal, but in the second half of the nineteenth century this begin to change, in Quebec as well as the rest of the ...