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Survivors of gender-based abuse can often feel retraumatized by the justice system. But simple acts of validation and support can make a meaningful difference and restore a sense of agency.
Legal experts argue the new updates will make it practically impossible to criminalize complainants for violating a ban on their own name
The federal government added a Criminal Code charge for the non-consensual sharing of intimate images online, and some provincial legislatures have changed laws.
Halifax Regional Police has agreed to release more information about its internal discipline decisions, after a year of negotiations with CBC. The police department acknowledged it didn’t meet its obligations under the law when it refused to provide the information in 2022.
Halifax police officer Const. Bojan Novakovic says he accepts blame for failing to collect clothing as evidence in the investigation into an alleged sexual assault in 2018.