Women's shelters

Last night I wrote a few paragraphs about women's shelters because every six days in Canada a woman is killed by her current or former intimate (male) partner, according to a Statistics Canada report published in 2014. In spite of there being over 300 women's shelters in Canada 73% of women and children who sought shelter to escape male violence in 2015 were turned away due to a lack of resources and capacity. Male violence against women really is endemic in Canada.

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