Thread by @TorontoStar

Today, the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women and the 31st anniversary of the #MontrealMassacre, YWCA Toronto and women’s shelters are drawing attention to the increase in domestic violence during the pandemic.
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This year, with Dec. 6 memorials happening virtually, women won’t be able to lean on other women for in-person support.

“I want to have hope,” Sharlene Tygesen, the executive director of a women’s shelter in Toronto, says. “I’m pissed and I’m tired.” thestar.com/news/gta/2020/…

“I don’t ever want us to forget that happened (at École Polytechnique in Montreal), but we haven’t come very far,” Sharlene Tygesen says. thestar.com/news/gta/2020/…

As we remember the victims of the #MontrealMassacre, many women are all too aware of the violence they and others face daily across Canada.
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From an Indigenous woman whose parents were murdered and who shared her story with the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women Inquiry to a 15-year-old student reflecting on her own identity, we asked women across Canada to share their voices.
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As risks of gender-based violence have spiked during the COVID-19 pandemic, an inclusive and co-ordinated national action plan is more critical than ever, @TorontoStar contributors Nathalie Provost, Paulette Senior and Lise Martin write. #MontrealMassacre thestar.com/opinion/contri…

In “Because They Were Women: The #MontrealMassacre,” journalist Josée Boileau looks back at the 1989 murders, and the reckoning with violence against women in Quebec and the rest of Canada. Boileau covered the Dec. 6, 1989 murders for @LeDevoir. thestar.com/news/canada/20…