Memorials held across B.C. for victims of femicide, violence against women

Supporters gathered in Path, B.C., on Friday for a march honouring the lifetime of a mom and registered nurse whose estranged husband is charged along with her homicide.

“There are lots of ladies dwelling in concern, strolling on eggshells, questioning when the following cruelty will descend on them,” Ann Godderis with the FAIR Society and WINS Transition Home advised the gang who turned out to recollect Lindsay Danchella.

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“Lindsay introduced folks collectively in life, however in her demise, we’re certain and united collectively to interrupt the silence and break the cycle, added Heather Wiley, the sufferer’s good friend.

The occasion was one in every of dozens of comparable marches, memorials and vigils held throughout Canada on Friday to mark the Nationwide Day of Remembrance and Motion on Violence Towards Girls.

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Close to downtown Vancouver, a bunch gathered at a monument for the 14 ladies killed by a gunman at Montreal’s Ecole Polytechnique on this present day 35 years in the past.

In New Westminster, footwear have been positioned on the steps of metropolis corridor, every bearing the names of ladies and ladies within the province who misplaced their lives to violence.

Angela Marie MacDougall, govt director of Battered Girls’s Assist Companies stated governments have did not deal with the epidemic of violence towards ladies with the urgency it wants.

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“The precedence is solely not there, that half the inhabitants merely doesn’t matter and that our lives don’t matter within the sense of being killed each day in our properties,” she advised World Information.

“We’ve had 20 ladies killed to this point in B.C. in 2024. There have been over 160 ladies killed all throughout the nation particularly due to their gender.”

MacDougall and different advocates have been working for years to have femicide — the killing of a lady due to her gender — acknowledged within the Felony Code.

MacDougall stated till Canada develops the “political will” to handle the basis causes of violence towards ladies, memorials like Friday’s will proceed.