News & Updates

By Dalya Israel, WAVAW's Victim Services Coordinator On January 21, 2013 the BC Government launched an online public consultation questionnaire where the public is asked to make suggestions on how...

by Lisa Wagner The City Council of Vancouver was to meet Tuesday to approve a series of increases to fines for 42 city bylaws, including those that allow for the ticketing of homeless people...

As the Idle No More strengthens so do, unfortunately, the condescending and racist editorials in various newspapers. Disgusted by the pieces being published WAVAW has written two separate responses...

By Alana Prochuk, WAVAW's Campus Anti-Violence Initiative Coordinator In a split decision, Canada’s Supreme Court has ruled that judges must determine on a case-by-case basis whether a witness can...

Written by Vanessa Chase, WAVAW Board Member The theme for Blog Action Day 2012 is the Power of We. A pretty prefect theme for me to write about considering that I’m very interested in the concept...

We will be watching how this Missing Women Commission of Inquiry Report really makes change for women on the ground. How are men going to change how they value Aboriginal women? How are Aboriginal...

This blog entry uses an asterisk after the prefix trans- as a way to include all non-cisgender gender identities. November 20th is the Trans* Day of Remembrance, a day that was set aside to...

Today is National Philanthropy Day! "It is the special day set aside to recognize and pay tribute to the great contributions that philanthropy—and those people active in the philanthropic...