Say it louder for the people in the back: “Cops are not social workers. We can’t arrest our way out of this crisis.”

Caldwell family centre has a clothing depot to serve low income clients. Or your local Buy Nothing group on FB.

Here is what I wrote in 2020, once again exhausted at people's refusal to name the problem for what it is - misogyny.

This day is an opportunity to reflect on violence against women in our society and to remember those who have died as a result of gender-based violence, including intimate partner violence; and to come together, speak out, and take action to eliminate all forms of violence against women and girls.

Today we remember Geneviève Bergeron, Hélène Colgan, Nathalie Croteau, Barbara Daigneault, Anne-Marie Edward, Maud Haviernick, Barbara Klucznik-Widajewicz, Maryse Laganière, Maryse Leclair, Anne-Marie Lemay, Sonia Pelletier, Michèle Richard, Annie St-Arneault and Annie Turcotte.