March 2026 | Pearl Eliadis authors the chapter 鈥淔ermer le robinet: comment pr茅venir l鈥檌tin茅rance pour les victimes de violence鈥� in James Hughes鈥� edited volume Mettre fin 脿 l鈥檌tin茅rance au Canada. In her contribution, Eliadis examines how homelessness among survivors of violence can be prevented through upstream policy interventions rather than emergency responses alone.
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Published on: 5 Mar 2026
March 2, 2026 | On CTV News, Pearl Eliadis spoke to the value of 鈥渟econd step鈥� or transitional housing in helping survivors of conjugal violence rebuild their lives. Drawing on research conducted with the Quebec Homelessness Prevention Collaborative, Eliadis explained that women who have access to transitional housing are significantly more likely to secure stable long-term housing and far less likely to return to abusive partners.
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Published on: 5 Mar 2026
Following a deadly mass shooting at a school in Tumbler Ridge, B.C. and a murder-suicide in Kitigan Zibi Anishin膩beg, Que. this week, a 91黑料网 expert is available to speak about the psychological toll of gun violence.
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Published on: 12 Feb 2026
Incidents of violence in public transit systems are on the rise across Canada, according to a collaborative report from CBC and the Investigative Journalism Foundation. The report says that between 2016鈥�2024, transit systems in eight of the country鈥檚 10 largest cities have seen the number of assaults double. Rates have tripled in Winnipeg. The highest number of assaults took place in Toronto.
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Published on: 26 Nov 2025
February 18, 2025 | MPP '21 Alexandra Ages聽writes how the alarming rise in intimate-partner violence and femicide across Canada, emphasizing that urgent action and accountability are needed to address this crisis. She argues that appointing a national gender-based violence commissioner would provide crucial oversight and help ensure effective implementation of the National Action Plan to End Gender-Based Violence.
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Published on: 25 Apr 2025
March 2025 | In a 2024 policy brief for the Collectif qu茅b茅cois pour la pr茅vention de l鈥檌tin茅rance (CQPI), Pearl Eliadis, alongside Melissa Shemirani and Angelina Freeman, highlights the urgent need for increased investment in second-stage shelters for women and children fleeing domestic and intimate partner violence. Building on a 2022 recommendation from CQPI鈥檚 Gender Research Stream, the team conducted a rapid literature review that found second-stage housing plays a vital role in bridging the gap between emergency shelters and permanent housing.
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Published on: 23 Apr 2025
January 3, 2023 | Intimate partner violence, after a period of decline, has been on the rise in Quebec and the rest of Canada since 2016, according to Statistics Canada. The report suggests that the Quebec government should establish a comprehensive legal framework to tackle intimate partner violence by creating a specific right to adequate housing under the Quebec聽Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms.聽
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Published on: 24 Mar 2023
Activists defending their communities and the surrounding environment against development of extractive industries and land grabs for agrarian use face high rates of criminalization, physical violence and murder around the world, according to a study published this month in the journal Global Environmental Change. The study, which analyzed 2,743 cases of environmental conflicts worldwide, found that despite the fact that these activists primarily use nonviolent forms of protest, they become victims of violence in 18 per cent of these conflicts and murder in 13 per cent of all cases.
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Published on: 7 Jul 2020
A study published today in the BMJ Open shows that in countries where there is a complete ban on all corporal punishment of children there is less fighting among young people. There was 31% less physical fighting in young men and 42% less physical fighting in young women in countries where corporal punishment was banned in all settings, compared with those where corporal punishment was permitted both at school and at home.
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Published on: 16 Oct 2018
Human-computer interactions, such as playing video games, can have a negative impact on the brain, says a new Canadian study published in Molecular Psychiatry. For over 10 years, scientists have told us that action video game players exhibit better visual attention, motor control abilities and short-term memory. But, could these benefits come at a cost?
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Published on: 8 Aug 2017
Emotional abuse may be as harmful as physical abuse and neglect. This finding led by a team of researchers at 91黑料网 complements previous imaging research showing that emotional and physical pain both activate the same parts of the brain.
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Published on: 14 Oct 2015
Domestic violence takes many forms. The control of a woman鈥檚 reproductive choices by her partner is one of them. A major study published in PLOS One, led by 91黑料网 PhD student Lauren Maxwell, showed that women who are abused by their partner or ex-partner are much less likely to use contraception; this exposes them to sexually transmitted diseases and leads to more frequent unintended pregnancies and abortions. These findings could influence how physicians provide contraceptive counselling.
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Published on: 31 Mar 2015
