This year the newspaper ran an image of a lady from the government looking at a rose as the lone person who showed up for an event intended to acknowledge officially violence against women. Her event was boycotted by those it concerned because the Harper government has withdrawn funding that gave any meaning to such a gesture.
As this blog indicates, I don't have the names of these organizations at hand. There had been some talk that they lost funding because they were poorly run or the money was going to overpaid staff or whatnot. But those details aren't assembled. The only information we do have is that crisis oriented services for women are diminished and not replaced by anything that can be called more efficient.
That said, if there isn't one official day to reflect on violence it isn't like we will then be thinking about it full steam 365 days a year. This is the 20th anniversary of the shootings at Ecole Polytechnique. Has there been 20 years of progress? I don't know. All I did about it was watch the movie today.
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