We have been working hard over the last several weeks to put in place all the necessary measures to keep our volunteers, clients, customers, and donors safe. We know that this has been a difficult time for everyone, and we really appreciate all the patience and support from our amazing community! Starting Monday, June [...]
Healthy Workplace Monitor (3 month contract with possibility of extension) Women’s Resources of Kawartha Lakes is currently looking for a full time contract Healthy Workplace Monitor (35 hours per week). The individual will be responsible to greet and screen all visitors to Women’s Resources and provide ongoing sanitation of common areas. In addition, she [...]
The outside world may not see the signs but the woman always does..... It’s a common reaction when a man is arrested for abusing or killing a woman in his life, whether his girlfriend, wife, mother, daughter or sister. “We just can’t believe he would do something like that,” neighbours, friends and coworkers say. [...]
Between April 1 and May 4, 2020, nine women and girls were killed in Canada. Police believe all of them died at the hands of a man in their lives — a husband, father, son or boyfriend. One unfortunately common reaction to those numbers is to say, “Oh, right; the pandemic. People isolated at [...]
Violence against women is often just the beginning. Now that we know the three worst mass murders in Canada — the shootings at L’École Polytechnique in Montreal in 1989, the van attack in Toronto in 2018 and now the murders that began in Portapique, Nova Scotia — all have a clear connection to misogyny [...]
