National Addictions Awareness Week 2025

National Addictions Awareness Week is November 17 to 22. It provides an opportunity for people to learn more about what causes addictions, prevention and harm reduction, to talk about treatment and recovery, and discuss solutions for change.

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Transgender Awareness Week 2025

Learn about trans awareness week and why it matters.

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All About the Manosphere

Learn about the manosphere and what you can do to counter its hateful influence.

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What is Technology Facilitated Gender-Based Violence?

Learn what technology facilitated gender-based violence looks like, who it affects, and how you can get support.

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DWS Community Response

Dawson Women’s Shelter wants to acknowledge that our community has been hurting and on high alert due to multiple physical and sexual assaults this past week.

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Understanding Stalking

Stalking is pattern of behavior directed at a specific person that would cause a reasonable person to fear for the person’s safety or the safety of others; or suffer substantial emotional distress.

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Stalking Awareness Month

We’re more likely to be able to support a friend who’s being stalked if we learn to recognize what stalking looks like and also learn to challenge the myths we’re taught about stalking.

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Ableism and Gender-Based Violence

Resources, links, and videos for folks to unlearn ableism and become better allies to disabled folks.

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World AIDS Day

December 1st is World AIDS Day. Why should we as anti-violence activists care about the stigma that folks living with HIV or AIDS face?

Understanding Gender-Based Violence

From November 25 to December 10 we call on everyone to take action to end gender-based violence. Why do we need 16 Days?

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16 Days of Activism - Community Workshops

Learn the warning signs of abuse and how to help a friend.

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Transgender Awareness Week 2023

November 13-19 is Transgender Awareness Week

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Disability Pride Month

Resources, links, and videos for folks to unlearn ableism and become better allies to disabled folks.

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Resources to End Gender-Based Violence

There’s a whole mountain of resources out there to learn more about ending gender-based violence, but good ones can be hard to find sometimes. We’ve collected some here…

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Bystander Intervention

We know that feeling in our stomach when something is wrong, but very rarely are we taught the skills to interrupt behaviour that can lead to sexual assault