Opinion: Rape Culture in Canadian Hockey
In July, former Vancouver Canucks ice hockey player Jake Virtanen was tried on a charge of sexual assault. The trial in Vancouver ended with the jury delivering a not guilty […]
BC Prosecution Service’s reply to Vancouver Rape Relief open letter regrading Chilliwack femicide
A Message from the BC Prosecution Service – 630620 Dear Hilla Kerner: Your email July 25, 2022, addressed to the Attorney General, RCMP, and others, has been forwarded to the […]
Vancouver Rape Relief’s Open Letter to Chilliwack Police and Crown
Crown Counsel Michelle Wray, BC Prosecution Service Chilliwack Staff Sergeant Grant Floris, Chilliwack RCMP July 25, 2022 As many others, we are heartbroken by the murder of two women in […]
Opinion: Beyond Amber Heard – When women speak up
As women, we continue to fight for our lives, safety, bodily autonomy, and the use of our voices to speak up about the male violence we have experienced. The act […]
An Open letter to members of the House of Commons
Honorable Senators and Members of Parliament, We, the collective of Vancouver Rape Relief and Women’s Shelter, urge you to bring forward new legislation that will remedy the recent judgment of […]
Vancouver Rape Relief’s comments to Vancouver’s Mayor and Council on Public Safety and Violent Crime Citywide
Dear Mayor and Council, Based on its published data, Vancouver Police Department received 578 reports of sexual assault (“sex offences”) in 2021. Addressing the enormous gap between the number of […]
Opinion: I had the choice, and so should all women
It was day two of a week-long backpacking trek across the North Coast Trail when I started feeling sick overwhelming nausea, loss of appetite, weakness. I thought we weren’t treating the water […]
Opinion: Yoko Ono makes space for women’s testimonies at the Vancouver Art Gallery
These are the last days of the Yoko Ono: Growing Freedom exhibition at the Vancouver Art Gallery. The exhibition includes a growing installation that Ono started in 2013 named “Arising.” The installation displays the responses […]
An Open Letter to RED FM Radio from Lower Mainland Women’s Groups
RED FM radio station March 28 2022 Dear RED FM management, We are outraged by the sexist and contemptuous remarks RED FM host Harjinder Thind made about young South Asian […]
Vancouver Rape Relief’s Brief to the Committee on Justice and Human Rights
We, the collective of Vancouver Rape Relief and Women’s Shelter, provide support to women who are currently being prostituted, women who are trying to escape prostitution, and women who are […]