Femicide Archives - Nova Scotia Advocate

Can expanding Bill C-7 on Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) endanger the lives of women victimized by non-state torture?

February 22, 2021

Jeanne Sarson and Linda MacDonald: “There is, from our perspective, a flawed and dangerous risk to Bill C-7 that may not as yet have been considered—in particular the consequences of societal sexism and relational violence. It is our concern, experienced over the past 28 years of developing supportive care for women who have suffered massively as a consequence of being born into families or having married a male spouse who were non-state torturer-traffickers.”

The good, the bad, the ugly, and the continuing need for a feminist analysis in the Nova Scotia mass shooting inquiry

September 15, 2020 1 Comment

Why are neither Minister for Women and Gender Equality Maryam Monsef nor Nova Scotia Minister for the Status of Women Kelly Regan willing to consider making a feminist analysis part and parcel of the public inquiry into April’s mass shooting?

What is a feminist analysis and why do we need one as part of the Nova Scotia mass shooting inquiry?

August 3, 2020 5 Comments

Misogyny is systemic within mainstream Nova Scotia and Canadian culture and agencies. To prevent male violence against women awareness interventions about socialized and normalized human inequality of women and girls needs to be spoken out loud, just like Canadians talk about the weather.

PSA: NS Feminists Fighting Femicide statement on the inquiry into the mass shooting

July 30, 2020 4 Comments

Press release: As feminists we insist there will be a gaping hole in the inquiry on future prevention unless components of a feminist analysis are included in the mandate of the inquiry.

Judy Haiven: How to know when it’s time and why a review won’t cut it

July 27, 2020 2 Comments

Judy Haiven: “When virtually all the relatives and friends of the 22 deceased demand answers only a full public inquiry can discover, it’s time, it’s time for Nova Scotia’s premier Stephen McNeil and Bill Blair, the federal minister of public safety, to admit they made a mistake.”

A feminist analysis: Intersectionalities of the Nova Scotia mass shooting atrocity

July 27, 2020

“For us feminism is not a ‘dirty’ word. For others the word seems to be scary or spells “danger.” Our call for a feminist analysis was ignored by federal and provincial governmental departments during their deliberations on how to address the mass shooting atrocities of a man whose actions or behaviours can only be described as evil.” Jeanne Sarson and Linda MacDonald on what the scary word is all about.

Smelling a cover-up from a mile away

July 27, 2020 3 Comments

John McCracken takes a look at the feedback on the federal/provincial announcement that there will be a review rather than a public inquiry on April’s mass shooting. “The good people of Nova Scotia, as it turns out, can smell a cover up from a mile away,” he concludes.

Open letter to Nova Scotia’s Liberal MPs: There is no feminist analysis in the mass shooting review

July 25, 2020

Open letter: Ten Liberal Members of Parliament were elected in this province of Nova Scotia, all signed this statement alleging there is a “feminists analysis” in the review process for the NS mass shooting. There is no evidence to back your statement.

Nova Scotia Feminists Fighting Femicide Statement on the Mass Shooting: We demand an end to male violence against women and girls!

July 24, 2020

Statement by Nova Scotia Feminists Fighting Femicide: “As feminists we are infuriated with this “father knows best” patronizing process of proceeding with a review versus an inquiry.”

Femicide and misogyny: Addressing these feminist concerns in the mass shooting public independent inquiry

July 17, 2020

Jeanne Sarson and Linda MacDonald on why the inquiry into the mass shooting requires a feminist analysis that considers femicidal violence as distinct from homicidal violence.