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Toronto’s declaration urges Ontario and Ottawa to enact recommendations from a coroner’s inquest into the deaths of three women at the hands of their former partner
Toronto city council declared gender-based violence and intimate partner violence an epidemic in the city on Thursday, while calling on Ontario and the federal government to do the same.
The declaration was the result of a motion from newly-minted Mayor Olivia Chow and came just weeks after the province declined to make the same move.
Declaration comes same day police say man charged for allegedly sexually assaulting 'underhoused' woman
City councillors voted unanimously to declare gender-based violence and intimate partner violence an epidemic in Toronto.