Fredericton police officer Colin Holmes pleaded guilty to assault, unlawful entry into his former spouse's home.

An Ottawa police officer found guilty of threatening to kill a woman during a 2020 domestic dispute, while in possession of a kitchen knife, is now facing two counts of discreditable conduct laid by...

The "Harry Potter" writer asked Omar Alghabra how many femicides his video would help prevent.

A man kills a woman every 2.5 days in Canada in their own family or as their partner - a pandemic partly hidden by COVID-19.

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Less than 48 hours after a judge sided with an abused wife in court — allowing her to live in the home she once shared with her husband, who is serving a prison sentence for brutally beating her —...

Three officers — Consts. Victor Lai, Sivapragasam Sivachandran and Adam Yurkiw — are facing misconduct charges including neglect of duty and discreditable conduct for failing to investigate a Toronto...

Winnipeg police have arrested and charged a man with manslaughter following a domestic incident early Wednesday in Westwood.

A Vernon pharmacist is out on parole one year after being sentenced to three and a half years jail time for manslaughter in his partner's death.

WARNING: CTV's Tara Nelson shares the latest on the ongoing murder-suicide investigation in Spruce Cliff, Calgary.

The Quebec man believed to have killed his two young children before taking his own life on Saturday had been recently arrested for harassing his spouse, CTV News has learned.

The man who killed his estranged wife outside an elementary school Tuesday morning was facing criminal charges for domestic violence and was charged with violating a no-contact order.

Ottawa police are investigating the homicide of a woman, who they say was the victim of intimate partner violence. Jennifer Zabarylo’s body was found in a home in the city’s west end. The 47-year-o...

'It’s a very painful way to die': Senior Crown Prosecutor Oryn Holm.

Michael LaCombe, 54, will instead serve 12 months of house arrest followed by 12 months of probation. He resigned from the Hamilton Police Service after a judge found him guilty of two counts of...

The man charged with the first-degree murder of a woman found near Drummondville, Que. on Saturday was her husband, CTV News has learned.

Three family members in Harrow, Ont., south of Windsor, were fatally shot in June, and the father died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, the Ontario Provincial Police announced Saturday.

The Holmesville, Ont. youth accused of murder will undergo a psychological and psychiatric assessment. The youth, who cannot be named under the Youth Criminal Justice Act, made a brief court appear...

Just when you thought the Twinkie defense had gone by way of VHS tapes, along comes a defense that makes you wonder whether lawyers go to stupid defense school.

On Thursday, August 8, 2024, at approximately 1:00 p.m., Hamilton Police, Fire, and EMS responded to a wellbeing check at 112 Ottawa Street North, Apartment 1. Upon arrival, emergency responders...

The trial of Jeremy Skibicki heard Thursday the DNA of a number of women, including Ashlee Shingoose, was found in his apartment.

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Steven Walsh of Harrow fit some pattern markers of domestic homicide-suicide perpetrators, according to the latest research on Canadian cases of "familicide" - mass killings involving the death of a...

Ontario Provincial Police are investigating after four people were found dead in the town of Harrow, just south of Windsor. Officers were called to a residence on County Road 13 at approximately 1:30...

Investigators have determined that the deaths of four family members in Harrow in June were the result of intimate partner violence, with three dying from gunshot wounds and one from a self-inflicted...

A Calgarian who “mutilated” his girlfriend in a Calgary hotel room, causing more than 140 stabbing and blunt force injuries, was handed a 10-year prison sentence for manslaughter on Friday.

A woman in her 20s is in hospital with critical injuries after being lit on fire on a Toronto bus in what police say was a "random" attack. 

More details have emerged after a man shot and killed two women in Western Australia on Friday before also killing himself.

The Mount Pearl man has been sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole for 10 years for the violent murder of Victoria Head, a mother of one, in St. John's in 2017. 

Announcing the reforms, Home Secretary Suella Braverman says domestic violence is "completely unacceptable" and causes "torment, pain, fear, and anxiety".

A mother and her four children, all newcomers to Canada from Sri Lanka, and a family acquaintance have been identified as the victims of a mass killing in the Ottawa suburb of Barrhaven Wednesday...

A 'horrific act of intimate partner violence' is what led to a triple homicide in McCreary, Man. last week according to RCMP.

Advocates say changes are need to address intimate partner violence, after three members of a family were killed in McCreary, Man., last week.

Exclusive: government’s response also indicates Canada intends to criminalise coercive control, a form of intimate partner violence

Women’s shelters are overflowing in the Niagara region, and the situation only appears to be getting worse.

Trevor Brown, who told police he was "joking around" with his girlfriend when he fatally shot her in the head, has been sentenced to four years in prison for manslaughter with an additional six...

Bearing the rain, advocates held a vigil in downtown Vancouver Tuesday for the women who were killed in alleged domestic violence incidents in B.C. this year.

Ontario's police watchdog says a 21-year-old woman was found dead in a Thunder Bay home after officers did not respond to a 911 domestic disturbance call.

Dr. Myrna Dawson, founder of the Canadian Femicide Observatory for Justice and Accountability, spoke to the Toronto Star about how failing to name femicide victims is “muting them…

Prince Albert police say a man recently released from custody is now facing a murder charge.

A 68-year-old man has been arrested for murder after an incident between family members in Chilliwack Wednesday, investigators say.

Five years after a national inquiry delivered more than 200 recommendations aimed at preventing missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls, former commissioners say there's too little systemic...

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Pressure is building for Ottawa to recognize femicide in the criminal code as thousands of women are suffering from intimate partner violence in Mississauga and Brampton

Forty-six per cent of solved homicides of women and girls were perpetrated by an intimate partner, compared to just six per cent of solved homicides of men and boys.

A new report found that 160 women and girls were killed across Canada in 2020 – an increase from 2019 figures.