On average, one woman or girl is killed every other day, somewhere in our country, mostly by men. Every week, one woman is killed by her male partner (Canadian Femicide Observatory for Justice and Accountability, 2024).
Of the 1,223 domestic violence homicide victims between 2009 to 2022, 79% were women and girls (Statistics Canada, 2023).
These sobering facts are even higher in the Prairie Provinces where domestic violence, including domestic homicide are the highest in the country.
The RESOLVE Network (RESOLVE Alberta, RESOLVE Manitoba & RESOLVE Saskatchewan) underscores the urgency of addressing domestic violence as a provincial emergency and public health crisis in the Prairie Provinces and calls on the provincial governments of Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta to declare domestic violence an epidemic and to act immediately to mitigate its devastating consequences.