What’s Current: Liberal government vows $100 million towards strategy to prevent’gender-based violence’

Finance Minister Bill Morneau and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau (Image: Sean Kilpatrick/Canadian Press)

Liberal government commits more than $100 million over five years to create a national strategy to prevent “gender-based violence,” in light of Robyn Doolittle’s “Unfounded” report.

A man whose victim killed herself while her rape allegations were being investigated complains that he was put through a “horrendous ordeal” after the case was dropped. An inquest last year found that Hannah Stubbs, 22, had been suffering post-traumatic stress at the time of her death.

Ambrosia Labs is paying Cambodian women less than $10 a day for their breast milk, which they then sell to Americans.

After rejecting his advances, a man followed a 60-year-old woman from a London Tube station, grabbed her from behind and repeatedly hit her in the face.

A 15-year-old girl was allegedly sexually assaulted by five or six men or boys on Facebook Live while 40 people watched.

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Meghan Murphy is a freelance writer and journalist from Vancouver, BC. She has been podcasting and writing about feminism since 2010 and has published work in numerous national and international publications, including The Spectator, UnHerd, Quillette, the CBC, New Statesman, Vice, Al Jazeera, The Globe and Mail, and more. Meghan completed a Masters degree in the department of Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies at Simon Fraser University in 2012 and is now exiled in Mexico with her very photogenic dog.