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Hamilton police Chief Frank Bergen answered more than three hours worth of questions from city council during Wednesday's general issues committee meeting about the police service's request to have a roughly $196 million budget approved.

Lanark Country is first municipality in Ontario to name femicide as an epidemic, adopting the first recommendation of last springs coroners inquest into the 2015 triple murders of slayings of Carol Culleton, Nathalie Warmerdam and Anastasia Kuzyk in Renfrew County.

Its not just locker room talk. Its not just a bad day. Its not just flirting. Gender-based violence is a serious issue that affects everyone in Canada,

Two submissions in the Nov. 29, 2022, Standard-Freeholder letters to the editor.

Two submissions in the Nov. 29, 2022, Standard-Freeholder letters to the editor.

Grete Hale, who died Oct. 28 at age 93, was the second of Ottawas legendary "Three Sisters".

It was just after dawn on Jan. 4, 1999, when Marlene Harris packed up her three children and drove to an East Hartford Stop & Shop, where she picked up a pay phone and dialed 211. On the other end of the line was Maria Mojica, then a crisis line operator with the Hartford-based non-profit Interval House for victims of domestic violence.

Sen. Richard Blumenthal, who joined the gathering of advocates on Monday, pledged to continue his fight against domestic violence: “Literally everybody has been touched by this,” he said. “Everyone is affected in one way or another.”

October is National Domestic Violence Awareness Month, and Connecticut advocates and elected officials gathered to discuss what they describe as a “shadow pandemic.”

IInterval House—Connecticut’s largest domestic violence agency—is set to observe Domestic Violence Awareness Month through its “Purple with a Purpose” campaign.