Peel Region officials say they need millions of dollars in funding from the province to help deal with a rising number of cases of intimate partner violence. The province says starting this year, the government will spend some $7 million per year to support transitional housing, but won't say how much of that will go to the region.
Organizers of this transitional housing program for women and children fleeing domestic violence have been working to build an addition on their Mississauga property since 2014.
In a region where intimate partner and family violence has for years been the cause of more citizen-initiated calls to police than any other crime, funding to service providers that
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