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Soroptimist International
of Vancouver Club:
Housing For Women
By Women

From SoroptomistVancouver.org:

Women disproportionately face conditions and concerns that affect their ability to find safe, appropriate, and affordable housing.

The predominance of domestic and gender-based violence that women face is a key critical issue that significantly impacts the precariousness of inadequate housing, creating a critical priority to provide safe, adequate and affordable housing for women.

Soroptimist International creates housing for women by women, affordable and long-term for senior women, single mothers and their children, and workforce women.

 

In addition, Soroptimist International brings a gender-based approach to all key areas of design and development, delivering this critical housing for women by an interdisciplinary team of experienced industry leading women.

 

Approach to design and development of this project will:

Create affordable housing options for women with low incomes

Support women to achieve financial independence and housing security

Incorporate participatory decision-making in key aspects of the design and development process

Implement gender-based approach in all areas of project design and development

Location

546 WEST 13th ST (CAMBIE & 13th) [Read more…]

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Prison Moms in Canada:
When Home Is Behind Bars

93,280 views
July 29, 2026

ENDEVR Documentary

What happens to motherhood when prison walls come between a parent and child?

Inside Canada’s women’s prisons, mothers fight to stay connected to the children waiting for them on the outside.

Through rare access, Prison Moms follows families separated by incarceration, revealing the impossible choices, emotional sacrifices, and surprising moments of hope that challenge everything we think we know about prison.

This documentary first aired in 2023 in Canada.

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Specialized Intimate
Partner Violence Response

The Battered Women’s Support Services newsletter, Aug 11th, 2026:

When the world gathered for the FIFA World Cup 2026, another story was unfolding quietly behind closed doors.

For decades, research has shown that major sporting events can coincide with increased intimate partner violence. The evidence existed long before the first match was played.

When that evidence identified a foreseeable increase in risk, you and our community chose not to wait.

Together, you helped build specialized intimate partner violence capability so women experiencing escalating violence could reach practitioners with the expertise to recognize coercive control, assess risk, develop individualized safety plans and help them move toward safety.

Because of you, women were not left to face that risk alone.

What You Made Possible

Over a remarkable period, our community invested $203,851 to strengthen specialized intimate partner violence response. Thank you… so very much.

That investment became far more than financial support.

Together, we provided specialized intimate partner violence response through:

  • Expertise in coercive control, entrapment and patterned abuse

  • Dynamic assessment of escalating risk and femicide-related lethality

  • Individualized safety planning grounded in women’s lived realities

  • Specialized intervention across legal, housing, child protection and health systems

  • Extended crisis line to 24/7 during FIFA

  • Practice-based evidence informing future public safety planning

This is what specialized intimate partner violence response looks like. This is what you helped build.

What Women Revealed

During FIFA World Cup 2026:

  • 734 women sought specialized intimate partner violence support.

  • Nearly 500 women disclosed recognized predictors of escalating lethality.

  • 94 women disclosed strangulation.

  • 84 women disclosed death threats.

  • 214 children were living with or exposed to violence against their mother by a father or father figure.

These statistics represent women who reached out to specialized practitioners during some of the most dangerous moments of their lives.

This confirmed something profoundly important: that women experiencing coercive control, strangulation, escalating violence and death threats require specialized expertise.

FIFA revealed what is possible when a community acts on evidence before predictable risk becomes crisis.

Your Impact Continues

The tournament has ended.

Your impact has not.

The knowledge generated through this work is already shaping conversations about public safety, municipal leadership, major event preparedness and specialized intimate partner violence response.

What began as frontline intervention has become practice-based evidence that will continue informing communities long after the final whistle.

Together, we are helping define what specialized intimate partner violence response looks like in Canada.

This Is Your Legacy

Women’s lives depend on more than awareness; they depend on communities willing to act before predictable risks become preventable tragedies.

Because of you, women found specialized support.

Because of you, practitioners generated new evidence.

Because of you, communities have a stronger understanding of what specialized intimate partner violence response requires.

That is your legacy. Thank you for believing women and their children deserved a specialized response.

With deep gratitude,

Angela Marie MacDougall
Executive Director
Battered Women’s Support Services Association

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8/8: The Lions Gate Portal
& the Mother’s Flow of LOVE

Jesus, the blessing and virtue of fortitude

It takes courage to embody a form on Earth!

The Lion’s Gate Portal is an annual event, several days before and after, August 8th (08/08/26, this year) with alignment of the Sun in Leo, Earth, and the star, Sirius.

It is a time to clear out old things, and welcome in the New, what we have been dreaming about . . .

The number 8 is the Infinity sign, and with the Universal Law of Change, we have been learning how the Mother’s Infinite Flow of Love is sent to us constantly and continuously into our tri-flames in our hearts.

Breathe, drop down
into the heart chakra.

Open to receive
the Mother’s Flow
the knowing of balance
JOY, gratitude, LOVE:
THE HEALING.

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Ontario Woman Awarded $400,000
Over Husband’s Decades-long
Abuse in Legal First

First award of damages for intimate partner violence, a new civil tort just acknowledged by Supreme Court in May

By Adam N. Black, Special to Financial Post, July 27, 2026

The decision serves as notice that the courts are prepared to place meaningful and substantial sanctions on a wrong the law did not recognize until very recently. Photo by Peter Power/Postmedia

An Ontario woman has been awarded $400,000 in damages for intimate partner violence suffered at the hands of her husband, the first award of its kind since a landmark Supreme Court of Canada ruling in May recognized such violence as a new civil wrong.Justice Susan Vella of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice released the decision on July 22, following a nine-day trial.

The judge found that the woman “suffered many physical and psychological harms” as a result of her husband’s abusive conduct over the course of their 54-year marriage.

The details of the case are shocking. Justice Vella found that the husband repeatedly punched, slapped and choked his wife over the course of the marriage, struck her with a hatchet or hammer on two occasions and broke her front teeth with a glass ketchup bottle.

He kept a house full of over 500 firearms ranging from handguns to machine guns. In addition to taking out a gun when he was enraged with the wife, he told her he had the “25 cent or ten cent solution for her” — a statement the wife understood to refer to the cost of making a bullet and as a threat to kill her.

According to the judge, these threats caused the wife to live in constant fear.“(She) was trapped in the marriage, always trying to behave in a manner that would not trigger one of (the husband’s) bouts of rage and the ensuing violence,” the judge wrote in her ruling.

The wife’s description of these events was corroborated by the testimony of all four of the couple’s children, as well as by audio and video recordings, photographs and medical records.

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