Ottawa city council has declared intimate partner violence an epidemic.
The motion, which council passed on International Women's Day, implements the top recommendation of last year’s inquest into the murders of three women in the Ottawa Valley.
Ottawa follows in the footsteps of Lanark County, which declared intimate partner violence an epidemic in December, the first rural county to do so. The motion also calls on Mayor Mark Sutcliffe to write to Premier Doug Ford and Health Minister Sylvia Jones to request that Ontario formally declare intimate partner violence an epidemic. And it asks city staff to look into integrating intimate partner violence into the city's community safety and well-being plan.
Ottawa has 12,000 people on the waitlist for affordable housing. Last year, Interval House, a centre for abused women and children, had to turn away 940 women who were seeking safe shelter.
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