This Valentine's Day, make a commitment to healthy love!
For every commitment you share on Facebook and Twitter from February 8-14 using the hashtag #HealthyLove, Margaret Newall will generously donate $2 (up to $2,000) to our Teen Healthy Relationship Programs!
Want to know why Margaret is supporting teen healthy relationships? Find out why she's made a commitment to healthy love.
With the New Year comes new opportunity for progress toward ending gender-based violence and poverty, and promoting women’s leadership.
As we head into January 2016, here are a few of the events, milestones, and developments we’ll be watching for in Canada.
Suffrage Centennial: Let’s start the year with a toast to Manitoba! In January 1916,women in Manitoba won the right to vote and hold government office at the provincial level. Women in Saskatchewan and Alberta won the right to vote later that year. It wasn’t until 1918 that women in Canada won the right to vote on a federal level, (1960 for Indigenous women covered by the Indian Act), but let’s remember that 100 years ago, Manitoba blazed a trail.
Armed with a rifle, a hunting knife and a hatred of feminists, Marc Lépine walked into Montreal’s École Polytechnique on December 6, 1989.
Lépine had a clear plan when he entered the engineering school that day. He strode into a classroom and separated the male and female students, asking the men to leave.
He asked the women if they knew what was going on. “I am fighting feminism,” he told them. After one of the women tried to reason with Lépine, he started shooting.
It’s one thing to come to terms with being in an abusive relationship.
It’s another to find a safe way out of that relationship when you have five young children.
For Christina*, who shared her story with SHE magazine, it required a huge leap over a chasm of uncertainties. There were safety, financial, legal, and emotional issues to consider as she tried to get through each day.
How can I end our marriage? What if he comes after me? How will I support the children? What if they miss their dad?
Winner of:
Toll Free: 1-866-293-4483
National Office: 1920 Yonge St., Suite 302, Toronto, Ontario M4S 3E2
© Canadian Women’s Foundation
Registered Charity #12985-5607-RR0001
Site designed by Design de Plume Inc.
