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Share this article OTTAWA, ON, July 29, 2021 /CNW/ - Advancing gender equality is a key priority for the Government of Canada. The COVID-19 pandemic has magnified systemic and longstanding inequalities, with women and girls disproportionately impacted by the crisis. Women have faced job losses and reduced work hours, shouldered the majority of the additional unpaid care responsibilities at home, and continue to be on the front lines of the pandemic. As Canada moves towards an inclusive recovery, meaningful progress to advance gender equality is needed now more than ever to ensure no one is left behind.
To further support critical recovery efforts led by the women s and equality-seeking movement, today the Honourable Maryam Monsef, Minister for Women and Gender Equality and Rural Economic Development, announced 237 projects to receive funding under the $100 million Feminist Response and Recovery Fund call for proposals.
Posted: Mar 13, 2021 7:00 AM PT | Last Updated: March 14
Sheila Poorman puts up posters of her daughter on Vancouver s Granville Street, where she went missing. (CBC/Ken Leedham)
Sheila Poorman has spent six months taping posters up across Vancouver, hoping someone might know why her daughter vanished after leaving a downtown apartment.
She wonders how no one could have noticed Chelsea Poorman, a 24-year-old Cree woman with round cheeks, friendly brown eyes and a noticeable limp, leave an apartment at Granville and Davie streets around midnight on Sept. 6 when those streets are lined with closed-circuit video cameras.
All she knows is that Chelsea met up with a new man after she spent the evening with her sister.
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Support line for those affected by missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls, Two Spirit and LGBTQQIA+ people
For immediate emotional assistance, call 1-844-413-6649. You can also access long-term health support services such as mental health counselling, community-based emotional support and cultural services and some travel costs to see Elders and traditional healers.
VANCOUVER, BC, Feb. 9, 2021 /CNW/ - Canadians expect to live in a society where the criminal justice system recognizes and supports victims and survivors of crime. Violence against Indigenous women, girls, Two Spirit and LGBTQQIA+ people in Canada is an ongoing national tragedy. Everyone has a role to play in ending this violence. The Government of Canada continues to work in partnership with provincial and territorial governments, Indigenous people, Indigenous women s organizations, and others, to develop an effective National Action Plan to address the root causes of
iPolitics By Kady O Malley. Published on Feb 9, 2021 6:01am Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will hold a media availability later this morning. (Andrew Meade/iPolitics)
As questions continue to swirl about the overseas shipping delays hobbling Canada’s cross-country vaccine rollout which, as the Star revealed yesterday, may be due in part to a slowdown in the European supply chain
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has once again scheduled a mid-morning media availability outside Rideau Cottage. As has become a biweekly routine, he’ll deliver an on-camera update of his government’s response to the pandemic before taking questions from reporters. (11:15 AM)
Back in the precinct,