Learning and Knowledge Exchanges
This webpage is a centralized hub for resources related to Gender-Based Violence (GBV) from organizations across British Columbia, as well as key national and international research. We will continue to update this webpage as further resources become available.
Policy Options on Non-Consensual Deepnudes and Sexual Deepfakes
Advancements in technology create the potential for new forms of gender-based violence that Canada needs to recognize, address, and monitor. This resource focuses on two of these new forms of violence, known as non-consensual deepnudes and sexual deepfakes.
Police Sexual Violence: What We Know & What Can We Do About It
This background details the reality of sexual violence by U.S law enforcement officers – including local and state police, ICE agents and Border Patrol, school resource officers, federal law enforcement agents, probation and parole officers; an issue that otherwise remains shrouded in silence.
Police Responses to Domestic Violence: A Fact Sheet
A U.S-based factsheet on police responses to domestic violence, arguing that police responses to domestic violence calls are primarily sites of physical and sexual violence, and neglect.
Living Together or Living Apart
This backgrounder explains the basics of family law in BC, including common-Law relationships, marriage, separation, and divorce.
The Rise of the Alt-Right in Canada: A feminist analysis
The Rise of the Alt-Right in Canada: A feminist analysis” looks at the alt-right using an intersectional feminist analysis and focuses on the context in Canada, from its historic roots to its continued proliferation, and outlines collective actions that we can all take to counter the alt-right movement today.
Tenant Survival Guide
TRAC’s popular Tenant Survival Guide is now an online Wikibook with fully searchable, and hyperlinking functions to key forms and resources.
Gladue and You
This plain language booklet describes Gladue principles that judges must apply at bail or sentencing when an Indigenous person is charged with a crime. It explains: Gladue factors; colonialism and systemic discrimination; how Gladue principles are applied in court; the difference between Gladue submissions and Gladue reports.
Gender-Based Violence in Rural, Remote & Northern Communities
This brief explores how gender-based violence takes place in ways that are both unique and disproportionately high in rural, remote, and northern communities across Canada.