Reading Time: 2 minutesVigils were held in Saskatoon, Regina, Edmonton, Toronto, and Ottawa to honour and demand justice for Hodan Hashi.
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Reading Time: 2 minutesOttawa police, please scrap the wristbands and start salvaging your relationship with the black community and the city of Ottawa at large.
Reading Time: 2 minutesShannon Fournier, the organizer of Rise Up and a former criminology student at the U of O, explained that through her own experiences, and during her time at the university, she learned about the holes that exist in the criminal justice system for victims of sexual assault when reporting crimes.
Reading Time: 3 minutesIt is unreasonable to expect every moment of a traumatic event to be remembered in perfect detail, because that simply isn’t how the mind works. Especially if you consider that these assaults allegedly occurred up to 12 years ago, and these women probably tried their best to forget them at that time.
