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Martin Tremblay Face Seven New Sex Charges

A man who Vancouver Police say has been preying on the women and girls of the Downtown Eastside tonight, facing seven new sex charges for incidents involving teenaged girls. Martin Tremblay has also...

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Predators online — and at the party — stalk vulnerable women

Hearing grim accounts of sexual assault has recently provided me with a disturbing lesson about the realities facing women in 2013. Realities I thought we’d left behind, such as giving up on a...

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Opinion: Ghomeshi trial exposed flaws in justice system

Survivors, feminists, and women across Canada have been closely watching the Ghomeshi trial and are patiently awaiting a verdict. We all expect that we live in a society where true justice is served,...

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Rash of sexual assaults cast shadow of fear across Burnaby

After waking to clear blue skies over Burnaby Monday, Alex Bevilacqua took her two daughters outside to play. The hundreds of hectares of park surrounding the Forest Grove resident’s home was a big...

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A story of rape, resistance and healing

It was the first hot day of spring, April 26, 1981. Two girls, giggling, talking about boys, shared a purloined cigarette on a wooded trail near their school in the University of B.C. endowment lands....

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Guilty pleas in Surrey sex-assaults case

A man charged in connection with a series of sexual and physical assaults on women that took place in Surrey has entered guilty pleas. On Monday, which was supposed to be the first day of his trial in...

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Man charged after woman sexually assaulted on SkyTrain in Surrey

A 60-year-old man has been charged with sexual assault after allegedly pushing his hands between a woman’s legs as she rode the SkyTrain in Surrey. Transit Police say a man boarded the train on the...

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Abbotsford police looking for suspect who groped teen girl

Abbotsford police are searching for a man who allegedly groped a teenage girl and tried to push her into a car. At about 11:15 p.m. on May 7, the 17-year-old girl got off a bus in the area of Townline...

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Daphne Bramham: Talk about sexual assault is good, but what will the premier...

Brava to Premier Christy Clark for speaking out about an attempted assault on her when she was only 13 and about other incidents of touching and groping when she was still a girl. “Our silence makes it...

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Video: Premier Christy Clark describes how she was attacked as a teenager

B.C. Premier Christy Clark speaks about Bill 23, the Sexual Violence and Misconduct Policy Act, from a personal point of view and why she stayed silent for 37 years.

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Christy Clark reveals personal reason for supporting sexual assault bill

Governments almost never consider bills introduced by the Opposition. There are a lot of reasons for that — some good, some not so good — but it’s a long, unfortunate tradition in Canada’s notoriously...

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Christy Clark says she spoke up to wash away stigma attached to sexual assault

When Premier Christy Clark made a spur-of-the-moment endorsement of an opposition MLA’s proposal to combat sexual violence, she realized she’d have to tell her own story about being assaulted as a...

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June 14: Sexual assault, Picasso, grizzlies, seafood

Meagre resources available for sexual assault victims Re: The importance of B.C.’s campus sex assault bill, Opinion, June 9 Not all hospitals in B.C. are able to complete a proper exam if a person...

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Daphne Bramham: Erring on the side of caution, universities put young women...

For Simon Fraser University to have allowed a suspected rapist to continue living in residence, going to classes and even attending campus pub nights after three young women reported him to police...

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Editorial: Is sexual assault policy act more red tape?

Given the passion that greeted the Sexual Violence and Misconduct Policy Act, it’s a surprisingly mundane document. No grand visions or high-minded declarations in the Act itself — only a requirement...

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Man guilty of sexually assaulting girl, 8, on Vancouver beach

A man has been convicted of sexually assaulting an eight-year-old girl at a University Endowment Lands beach on Canada Day 2014. B.C. Supreme Court heard that David Alan Lessor approached the victim,...

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Whistler RCMP seek 'persons of interest' in reported sexual assault

Whistler RCMP has released several photos of a group of individuals they’d like to speak with about a reported sexual assault in a Whistler nightclub Sept. 4. Police said Monday that the alleged...

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17-year-old arrested in 'sexually motivated' break-in at Vancouver home

Police say a youth has been arrested after a “sexually motivated” break-in at a home in east Vancouver. They say a 57-year-old woman awoke around 2 a.m. Wednesday to find a man standing in her...

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Sexual assault concerns lead to changes at B.C. universities

Trey Levy, a defensive end for UBC’s Thunderbirds football team, is tackling head-on the issue of sexual violence on campus.  In his third year at the University of B.C., the 21-year-old Levy has...

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