YWCA Ontario Coalition responds to the 2023 Provincial Budget One of the two themes of this year’s provincial budget, tabled by Finance Minister Peter Bethlenfalvy on March 23, was “Working For You.” However, YWCA Ontario, a coalition of 10 YWCAs across the province, remains unclear about who the budget is actually working for – because […]
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Dear Men, I’m saving you a spot at the next vigil
Dear Men, I’m saving you a spot at the next vigil Written by: Tara Kleinsteuber (YWCA Cambridge) I have been attending vigils for victims of gender-based violence for years and whether the focus is on missing and murdered Indigenous women, or marking the anniversary of the Dec. 6 shootings at Ecole Polytechnique in Montreal, there’s […]
Fourteen rose ceremony to mark National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women
WATERLOO REGION – The National Day of Remembrance & Action on Violence against Women began in 1991 after an incident in 1989 when a lone gunman killed 14 women at the Polytechnique Montréal. The YW Kitchener-Waterloo and Feminist Shift invite you to gather to remember 14 women who lost their lives that day and every […]
Gender-Based Violence and Women’s Homelessness in Waterloo Region
GBV and Women’s Homelessness: Traveling around in a community where they’re still safer if they make themselves, and their needs, invisible. The reality is that for the women, trans*, two-spirit and gender-diverse people living without access to their own safe housing in Waterloo Region, their day often consists of multiple experiences of gender-based violence. (Gender-Based […]
Provincial Budget Continues to Miss the Mark – YWCA Ontario Responds to 2022 Provincial Budget
August 11, 2022 YWCA Ontario Coalition This week, the Ontario Government re-introduced the 2022 Budget. Although there was an opportunity to address deepening crises in our province, few modifications to the budget were proposed. The proposed budget fails to offer Ontarians real relief from increasing inflationary pressures and fails to address the epidemic of gender-based […]
Media Release- PROJECT WILLOW COLLABORATIVE PUBLISHES RESEARCH REPORT ON EXPERIENCES OF GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE AMONG WOMEN EXPERIENCING HOMELESSNESS IN WATERLOO REGION
MEDIA RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 15, 2022 PROJECT WILLOW COLLABORATIVE PUBLISHES RESEARCH REPORT ON EXPERIENCES OF GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE AMONG WOMEN EXPERIENCING HOMELESSNESS IN WATERLOO REGION WATERLOO REGION, Ontario – Research led by the YW Kitchener-Waterloo and Community Justice Initiatives, as part of the Project Willow initiative, exposes the jarring reality of the impact of […]
Feminist Shift Launches Region-Wide All-Candidates Survey
MEDIA RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 12, 2022 FEMINIST SHIFT LAUNCHES WITH REGION-WIDE ALL-CANDIDATES SURVEY WATERLOO REGION, Ontario – Today, the Feminist Shift, a coalition led by YW Kitchener-Waterloo and YWCA Cambridge, officially launched their all-candidates survey focusing on gender-based issues in Waterloo Region. The survey, presented to all provincial election candidates […]
Building equitable cities: A human right to housing framework
The YW Kitchener-Waterloo got its start as an organization in 1905, with its emergency shelter. At that time, it was a hostel for women coming from the countryside to work in the city’s many factories producing goods. Throughout the decades since, the organization has continued expanding on its mission to support women, gender-diverse folks and […]
YWCA Cambridge hosting Women of Distinction awards gala after 2-year hiatus due to COVID-19
As your two friendly neighbourhood feminists, we’ve talked a lot about how the pandemic has disproportionately impacted women. In fact, a lot of people have been pointing this out, from the uneven distribution of unpaid care work responsibilities resulting from school and child care closures to the even more skewed impact of business closures on […]
We’re Building Feminist Cities in our Latest Podcast Episode.
Introducing Leslie Kern In this episode we talk to urban scholar Leslie Kern (https://lesliekern.ca/) author of the Feminist City, about how to build cities with women in mind. We explore how cities can show up better for women in caregiving roles and how we build safety into our city for low-income and homeless women, who […]