Reading Time: 5 minutesIf it’s that easy to keep your job as a bar manager, and have a “sold out” club, even when guests are aware that you’re a convicted sexual predator, one has to wonder if #MeToo has gone too far, or if it hasn’t gone far enough.
Reading Time: 7 minutesAt the end of the day, Butt says that the goal is to have measure that are “more individualized to the circumstances of the allegation, but also the individualized circumstances of the accused person too,” and to “try and manage the risk in a community as much as possible.”
Reading Time: 3 minutesBill 132, which received royal assent in March 2016, requires Ontario universities to have a stand-alone policy on sexual violence by Jan. 2017.
Reading Time: 2 minutesHow one Ottawa U alumni took it in her own hands to raise awareness of violence against women for V-Day.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThis nail polish isn’t an inherently bad thing, but it is a temporary solution to a greater problem.
Reading Time: 9 minutesReports like these pose an uncomfortable but unavoidable question: Are we seeing a rise in sexual assaults in Ottawa?
Reading Time: 3 minutesFROM AN EARLY age, the importance of women being able to defend themselves against would-be attackers is stressed. With news coverage of violence against women, stranger danger talks with parents, and the self-defence courses offered in high schools, young girls are taught they need to know how to protect themselves. The U of O is …
Reading Time: 3 minutesClothes can’t constitute consent A RECENT TREND in criminal justice may be of interest to our female readers—or anyone amused by the ridiculous decisions made by some of our fellow human beings. Apparently, in some countries, if a woman is wearing skinny jeans at the time of a sexual assault, then her rapist is absolved …
