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Main / Barbara Kay: Calling all male bashers
Jun 05, 2013, 02:17 PM
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In alarmed response to emerging "men's rights awareness" groups (MRA) on a number of Canadian campuses, the Canadian Federation of Students (CFS), a union body representing some 500,000 students, seeks to amend its "Sexual Assault and Violence Against Women on Campus" policy.

The CFS rejects any need of formal fellowship around specifically male issues, alleging MRA groups' real purpose is to promote "misogynist, hateful views" and to "justify sexual assault." Simon Fraser University's recently inaugurated  $30,000-funded men's centre, for example, was demonized as a place to "celebrate hegemonic masculinity."

What nonsense! The actual benign nature of MRA groups, where both sexes are welcome to discuss male-centred concerns, can be seen in a publicity campaign video of a relatively new organization, which has become a lightning rod for anti-male activism, the Canadian Association for Equality (C.A.F.E.).



lots,lots more.....
http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2013/06/05/barbara-kay-calling-all-male-bashers/
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Robyn Urback: Student union brands men's rights groups as 'hateful' clubs that 'justify sexual assault'



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There is, apparently, an ominous threat to female autonomy growing on Canadian campuses, and it masquerades under the guise of "men's rights awareness." These deceptive collectives purport to offer support and resources to men in the community, but, according to the Canadian Federation of Students, they actually promote "misogynist, hateful views," and "justify sexual assault." Well, then.
The Canadian Federation of Students (CFS), the union body representing over 500,000 students across the country, will consider this and other matters over the next week as part of its 63rd semi-annual nation general meeting. On the agenda roster is a motion to amend the "Sexual Assault and Violence Against Women on Campus" policy to account for the "increase in the presence" of men's groups on Canadian campuses.


According to the motion:

"The groups provide environments for sexism, patriarchy, and misogyny to manifest and be perpetuated on campus" and "promote misogynist, hateful views toward women and ideologies that promote gender equity, challenges women's bodily autonomy, justifies sexual assault, and decries feminism as violent."
"Messages from these groups claim to be of equality, but are in fact messages that are misogynist, sexist, cissexist, heterosexist, and homophobic responses to the challenge of cis-male privilege in society."


lots more....
http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2013/05/31/robyn-urback-student-union-brands-mens-rights-groups-as-hateful-clubs-that-justify-sexual-assault/
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Gender notions are widespread, and even have some truth to them: Girls are thought to be more focused and harder workers, while boys are rambunctious and more hands-on. But teachers can make pivotal decisions, such as whether a child advances to a more intense class or whether to bulk up on a certain approach to learning because there are more boys than girls in the class, based on their gender, according to Tasha Riley, a post-doctoral research fellow at Griffith University in Brisbane, Australia.
Her paper -- Boys are like puppies, girls aim to please: How teachers' attributions and associations lead to gender stereotypes -- reveals that while only some teachers decided to hold a child back or advance them based on their gender, most if not all were very upfront in saying they felt boys and girls learn very differently.
"The danger here is that people are too dependent on these stereotypes instead of looking at the individual child that's right in front of them," she said. "Paying more attention to these assumptions, that's what's going to get people into trouble."



lots more....

http://news.nationalpost.com/2013/06/04/boys-are-like-puppies-girls-aim-to-please-new-research-shows-teachers-are-upfront-about-gender-differences/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+NP_Top_Stories+%28National+Post+-+Top+Stories%29&utm_content=Google+International
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Main / Morgentaler
Jun 02, 2013, 10:17 PM
Lilley on the death of Morgentaler

http://www.sunnewsnetwork.ca/video/featured/prime-time/867432237001/lilley-on-the-death-of-morgentaler/2424105365001

May 31, 2013 14:54

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Brian Lilley comments on the death of Canadian abortion leader Dr. Henry Morgentaler.
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Main / Mister mom
Jun 02, 2013, 09:50 PM
Mister mom

http://www.sunnewsnetwork.ca/video/featured/prime-time/867432237001/mister-mom/2424351921001

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May 31, 2013 19:58

Kay Hymowitz, Senior Fellow, Manhattan Institute speaks with Tom Brodbeck about the implications of women becoming 40% of breadwinners in US households.



Women are earning more -- and doing more housework too

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"Our analysis...suggests that gender identity considerations may lead a woman who seems threatening to her husband because she earns more than he does to engage in a larger share of home production activities, particularly household chores," the Times quoted the economists' paper as saying.


Lots more;
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/the-hot-button/women-are-earning-more----and-doing-more-housework-too/article12259070/


As more women become bigger breadwinners, the news isn't all good


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It's hard, at first glance, not to feel wonderfully liberated by this statistic: According to a new study, 40 per cent of U.S. homes with kids under the age of 18 now have moms bringing home the biggest paycheque. That's a quadrupling since 1960, and not that far away from the 50-per-cent mark. After-work cocktails, all around.
That is, if you're a breadwinning mom who can afford them.


Lots more;
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/the-hot-button/as-more-women-become-bigger-breadwinners-the-news-isnt-all-good/article12247901/
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Thanks to Douglas at am.com;


Unprecedented Domestic Violence Study Affirms Need to Recognize Male Victims


The most comprehensive review of the scholarly domestic violence research literature ever conducted concludes, among other things, that women perpetrate physical and emotional abuse, and engage in control behaviors, at comparable rates to men. The study was directed by the Editor-in-Chief of Partner Abuse, a Springer Publishing Company journal.



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"Over the years, research on partner abuse has become unnecessarily fragmented and politicized," commented John Hamel, Editor-in-Chief of Partner Abuse and PASK Director. "The purpose of this project is to bring together, in a rigorously evidence-based, transparent and methodical manner, existing knowledge about partner abuse, with reliable, up-to-date research that can easily be accessed by anyone. PASK is grounded in the premises that everyone is entitled to their opinion, but not to their own facts; that these facts should be available to everyone, and that domestic violence intervention and policy ought to be based upon these facts rather than ideology and special interests."

Among PASK's findings are that, except for sexual coercion, men and women perpetrate physical and non-physical forms of abuse at comparable rates, most domestic violence is mutual, women are as controlling as men, domestic violence by men and women is correlated with essentially the same risk factors, and male and female perpetrators are motivated for similar reasons.


More...
http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/5/prweb10741752.htm?PID=4003003

PDF 
http://www.springerpub.com/content/journals/PA-KnowledgeBase-41410.pdf
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Barbara Kay: Time spent with fathers is highly correlated with positive outcomes for children of broken marriages.


Supreme Court Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin has commissioned a report aimed at overhauling Canada's family-law system. Its recommendations, which will be officially released later this month, reportedly include strategies for streamlining the legal process, encouraging mediation and reducing litigation.

The report will note that the number of self-representing litigants in family-law cases has climbed to above 70%, largely due to the exorbitant cost of lawyers. That statistic suggests the economic hardship that fractious breakups impose, but not the heartbreaking human costs imposed on parents -- especially fathers, who often find the deck stacked against them in court.

Efficiency, reduced costs and diminished litigation are worthy goals in a system notorious for being out of control in all these areas. But a more fundamental reform also is needed: The establishment of equal shared parenting as the default in custody after marriage breakdown.

In most contested cases, mothers are awarded sole -- or effectively sole -- custody over children, with fathers relegated to the role of visitors, an unsatisfactory situation for them and for their children. Even unlitigated cases are settled "in the shadow of the law" -- meaning that fathers often are advised by their lawyers to settle for whatever they can get, as they know the deck would be stacked against them in court.

Equal shared parenting -- a minimum of 40% of time spent with children by each parent -- has been federal Conservative party policy in theory since 2002, following an exhaustively researched landmark federal study in 1998, "For the Sake of the Children," which recommended equal parenting as the presumptive custodial arrangement in the absence of abuse.

But in spite of its own avowed, reiterated position -- and polls showing 80% of Canadians support a strong role for both divorced parents in the lives of their children -- Stephen Harper's government has failed to enable MP Maurice Vellacott's repeated motions to that end. As a result, fathers often continue to be unjustly marginalized in family court.

We know much more about the effects of enforced separation from fathers on children than we did even a decade ago. Yet anti-father myths persist, such as: that infants and toddlers have only one primary "attachment figure"; that overnighting away from mothers causes anxiety or maladjustment in all infants and toddlers; that children prefer living with only one parent, and shared parenting isn't worth the hassle; that shared parenting works only in the case of harmonious divorces; and that the quality of children's relationships with their fathers is not related to how much time they spend together.

Dr. Linda Nielsen, professor of Adolescent and Educational Psychology at Wake Forest University in North Carolina, debunks such myths in a recent feature article published in The Nebraska Lawyer, "Parenting Time and Shared Residential Custody: Ten Common Myths."

In her study, a meta-review of 64 articles published in peer-reviewed journals, Neilsen concludes that "infants form strong attachments to both parents at roughly the same time. Whatever preferences infants might have for one parent disappears by 18 months of age." She found seven studies that have assessed overnighting of preschoolers, and "none of them found statistically significant differences in instability or other measures of maladjustment." Also: "The vast majority [of children] who have lived in shared residential parenting families say the inconvenience of living in two homes was worth it," and "most children in shared residential custody and those who see their father frequently are better off on measures of well-being even when their parents have ongoing conflict."

Most importantly, she concluded that "fathering time, especially time that is not limited mainly to weekends or to other small parcels of time, is closely associated with the quality and endurance of the father-children relationship. This kind of fathering time is highly correlated with positive outcomes for children of divorce."

Justice McLachlin's goal of encouraging mediation and settlement is a noble ideal. But unless the unlevel playing field of family-law litigation is corrected, her proposals will prove merely cosmetic -- both for Canadian fathers and for the children who desperately need to spend time with them.

by Barbara Kay
National Post
April 2, 2013


https://www.facebook.com/notes/real-women-of-canada/barbara-kay-time-spent-with-fathers-is-highly-correlated-with-positive-outcomes-/10151410426788237
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In the U.S. military, there were 26,000 sexual assaults last year alone

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Deep in the weeds of the Pentagon's response to a lawsuit detailing a nasty list of sex crimes perpetrated against several women in uniform is a phrase that neatly sums up the U.S. military's view of why civilian courts have no business considering such accusations.

"There can be no question," says the Pentagon's legal brief last year, that the rapes and assaults were "incident to the military service" of the women involved.

In other words, they go with the job.

The District Court for the District of Columbia agreed, and tossed out the suit.
Watch 'The Invisible War,' a Oscar-nominated documentary about the epidemic of rape within the U.S. military.
http://www.cbc.ca/passionateeye/episode/invisible-war.html  Runs 1:25:40


For public consumption, of course, the Pentagon's line on sexual assaults in the service is rather more sympathetic.

It portrays military justice as a rigorous mirror of the civilian system, and says all the right things about the topic.

"Sexual assault is a crime that has no place in the Department of Defence," declares the first sentence of the U.S. military's latest annual report on the subject, released last week.

The facts suggest otherwise.

Using anonymous internal questionnaires, the Pentagon itself calculates there were 26,000 sexual assaults, ranging from rape to abusive sexual contact, against soldiers, male and female, in 2012.

That's an average of over 70 a day, and an increase of about 35 per cent over the previous two years.

Military authorities "routinely and systemically fail to catch predators," says Susan Burke, the D.C. lawyer who, out of sheer frustration, filed the civil suit on behalf of the 12 plaintiffs that was thrown out in District Court. "And most predators are serial offenders, so of course you have a serially growing predation problem."


lots more...

http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2013/05/10/f-rfa-macdonald-military-sexual-assaults.html
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Saskatoon walkers carry chains as part of Elizabeth Fry Week

Many people in Saskatoon carried chains across the Broadway Bridge today to raise awareness for incarcerated women.

The Lady Justice Walk is part of National Elizabeth Fry Week. It's an effort to highlight problems with the criminal justice system.

Sue Delanoy, executive director of the Elizabeth Fry Society of Saskatchewan, said it is important to recognize the high number of women in prison.

"We want people to recognize that putting somebody in jail, especially a female, has a lot of other repercussions around it," Delanoy said. "Acknowledging the plight of children and women is important for us."

Delanoy said the majority of women who are imprisoned are mothers, which has a significant impact on their families.

"It's so easy for all of us to say, 'They committed a crime, just throw them in jail and lock away the key.'" Delanoy said. "We are just so much better of a society when women are well taken care of and so are their families."

One of the biggest problems, Delanoy said, is a lack of assistance for women with addictions, mental illness and victims of domestic abuse.

"We have way too many women on remand," Delanoy said. "They're in a void. They're not sentenced yet so they can't take part in any programming to get them back into the community. It's like dead space for them."

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatoon/story/2013/05/08/sk-elizabeth-fry-0513.html


Comment from am.com;
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Why are so many women's groups & feminists demanding women be given leniency when they commit crimes? How can they keep a straight face while stating they seek equality?


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Main / Earl Silverman has passed away
Apr 27, 2013, 12:14 PM
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It is with great sadness that I report on the suicide of the founder of Canada's only safehouse for men.


antimisandry.com http://antimisandry.com/great-men-their-historical-accomplishments/earl-silverman-has-passed-away-51416.html#ixzz2RgzkXmgU
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Female guards, rapidly growing in numbers, at heart of U.S. prison sex scandal




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According to a 2008-2009 Department of Justice report, the vast majority of prison guards who have sex with inmates are female, she points out.
"Among the 39,121 male prison inmates who had been victims of staff sexual misconduct, 69 per cent reported sexual activity with female staff," the study found.
In juvenile facilities, the numbers are even more staggering. Ninety per cent of boys who complained of sexual harassment by prison officials said they were solicited, and often raped, by women.
"This is a problem that isn't going away, and in fact may become more prevalent in the years to come," Smith said


lots more.....http://www.theprovince.com/news/Female+guards+rapidly+growing+numbers+heart+prison+scandal/8296853/story.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3a+canwest%2fF228+(The+Province+-+News)&utm_content=Google+International
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Complainant told police in 2008 that she had actually been assaulted by her brother

"The case speaks for itself. I was wrongly accused and falsely accused of a charge that never happened. I wasn't there. It should've never taken place. Instead they just lied about it and kept it hidden," said Barton.

"I think it's a long time for somebody to come and give me an apology after 43 years of just making my life a piece of shit."


Lots more....
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/story/2013/04/25/ns-barton-court-exonerated.html?cmp=rss
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Main / Shattering the Mens rights movement
Feb 14, 2013, 03:06 AM
What I have been trying to say since avfm took over the gay rights agenda.



Shattering the Mens rights movement

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I see a danger to the MRA that's been growing for several months now, and it may be difficult for tolerant guys like us to address. If we don't address it however, it could cost us 40% of potential future MRA's as well as a good sized chunk of current MRAs. So here goes. I'm going to have to say it.
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Internet Feminists and 'masculists' go head-to-head through hashtags


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The internet can be an unfriendly place for women at times -- especially those who self-identify as feminists.

After browsing through some of the past year's most prominent anti-feminist cyber harassment stories (like that of Canadian-born Anita Sarkeesian who was brutally hounded by online mobs for speaking out against misogyny in video games) many would say that "unfriendly" is putting it lightly.



Earlier this week, in a 4Chan post titled "Let's piss off some feminists," an anonymous message board user encouraged others to Tweet on a hashtag called #INeedMasculismBecause. The user included a series of pre-written, anti-feminist messages for inspiration.

As the DailyDot's Aja Romano reports, both serious proponents of "masculism" and Twitter trolls began filling the hashtag with inflammatory statements.


Lots more......
http://www.cbc.ca/news/yourcommunity/2013/02/internet-feminists-and-twitter-trolls-go-head-to-head-through-hashtags.html
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Main / Family Violence Affects Men Too
Feb 05, 2013, 09:33 PM
from mensrights-help;



Family Violence Affects Men Too
Original Air Date: Monday, February 04, 2013
Family violence is a constant problem, but the discussion is often limited to female victims. Many men also deal with violence and abuse, but perhaps lack access to the same resources. Does our approach to this issue need to change? Are solutions to family violence gender-specific?

Video;

http://www.albertaprimetime.com/Stories.aspx?pd=4755

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The Conservative Party of Canada (CPC) Conducting a Survey.-Please take part and talk about Equal Parenting.


SURVEY
http://www.conservative.ca/?page_id=2653



The Conservative party of Canada is conducting a survey at this link   http://www.conservative.ca/?page_id=2653  as well as the link above. At the bottom of the survey are two text boxes requesting feedback info. Along with others I have added my own personal point about Equal Parenting along with my own 'private issue' political request about abortion. I have urged the party to look very seriously at the issue of Equal parenting as it concerns so many Canadians.


My comment;



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The Conservatives really need to open up on and instill an equal custody arrangement after divorce or seperation.

Kid's need both parent's in their live's.

There also need to be new law's regarding false allegations in custody battle's.

There should be automatic jail-time for claiming abuse or any other false claims that are consistantly used as a silver bullet in custody dispute's.

There is no innocent untill proven guilty if you are the father.

It is guilty untill you prove yourself innocent,which is unfair and can lead to parental alienation because of the slow process of the family court system.
Months can feel like years to any child.


Also,like the native scenario and accountability,there needs to be accountability from the domestic violence shelter's and it's time for them to open their books.

I believe the government is being taken by the feminist mantra that it is only men who are abuser's,when in fact,it is the men who are abused who are truly hidden victim's of domestic violence.

These shelter's need to help iether gender when in need,not leave father's with no where to go for support or resources,when attempting to escape domestic violence with their children.
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Main / Joke of the Year‏
Jan 28, 2013, 08:34 PM
Joke of the Year







Two women were sitting quietly together, minding their own business.

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5-year-old kindergartner with pink bubble gun suspended from school

By Rick Dandes The Daily Item


MOUNT CARMEL -- A 5-year-old kindergartner who told classmates she was going to shoot them, and then herself, with her pink bubble gun, was grilled for three hours by Mount Carmel school officials without her mother's knowledge, then suspended, a family attorney said.

The girl was initially kicked out for 10 days in what the school categorized as a "terroristic threat," according to the kindergartner's mother and confirmed by the family attorney. That suspension was reduced to two days and labeled as a "threat to harm others."

Their names are being withheld to protect the girl's identity.

Mount Carmel Superintendent Bernard Stellar on Thursday declined comment, saying it would be a breach of confidence and that he cannot discuss student discipline issues.

The alleged incident occurred Jan. 10, while the girl was waiting in a school bus line.

According to Robin Ficker, of Bethesda, Md., the parents' lawyer, the kindergartner was playing with two friends and spoke about her Hello Kitty Bubble Gun, which shoots bubbles.

Ficker said the girl mentioned that she was going to shoot one of her friends and then herself with the bubble gun, so that they could all be together. Then, she was going to shoot herself again when she got home.

"This logic, which was not said in malice, came from the mind of this beautiful 5-year-old child who was playing with her friends, whom she hugs every day," Ficker said.

Someone at the school became aware of the conversation and words used, Ficker said, "because the next day, this student was questioned by people at school and suspended."

Ficker said the questioning apparently began around 10:30 a.m., and that the girl's mother was contacted at 1:30 p.m.

"You're telling me that this child was questioned by adults, in a situation where there was no parent or parental guardian, and then she was, initially, given an incident category of 'making terrorist threats?'" Ficker asked. "And this from a 5-year-old? What's going on here? Can't kids be kids anymore?"

The girl was initially given a 10-day suspension.

"This is a good-natured little girl," Ficker said. "And this shows how hysterical people who work at schools have become since Sandy Hook."

Ficker said he was not minimizing the dangers with which schools must contend, given the Dec. 14 massacre in Connecticut.

"You can't make light of what happened to this girl either," Ficker said. "The incident goes on her permanent school record. She has been branded a troubled person. But she was suspended for her words. She had no gun. She had a bubble-making machine."

The girl's mother said her daughter has been very upset since the incident.

"All I know," said the mother, "is what my daughter has told me and she said she was told she could go to jail, which is a very traumatic thing for a 5-year-old to live with."

Before being allowed to return to school, Ficker said, the girl had to undergo psychological testing from an independent practitioner.

"The psychologist said that she posed no danger to others," Ficker said. "I think it's pathetic when little kids can't play... or get in this kind of trouble for using the wrong words. This little girl is one of the least threatening people in the state of Pennsylvania."

Ficker is fighting to expunge the incident from the girl's records.

"I'm going to call the superintendent about this," he said Thursday. "We need to expunge the record right away.

Real nuts and terrorists are winning when innocent kids are put through the ringer. Kids this age, they have fragile minds."

That the kindergartner landed in trouble over such an incident might seem ludicrous to most, but Ficker said, "It's not funny when a child is branded, when a child is suspended for playing with a bubble gun."

The girl's mother said she is also upset that she was not contacted when, for three hours, her daughter was questioned.

Ficker did not rule out suing the school district.

"We'll see what happens at the meeting" with the district superintendent, he said.


http://dailyitem.com/0100_news/x964877896/Bubbles-shooter-5-suspended
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Abused wife free after Supreme Court tosses hit-man hire case

Top court rejects 'duress' defence in also overturning acquittal of N.S. woman


The Supreme Court of Canada has overturned the acquittal of an abused woman who tried to hire a hit man to kill her husband, but the decision released today also ordered the Crown to drop her case.

With all proceedings against her stayed in the 8-1 decision, Nicole Doucet Ryan cannot be retried for counselling to commit murder.

Doucet, as she is now known, a high school teacher in southwestern Nova Scotia, was arrested in March 2008 and charged with counselling an undercover police officer to kill Michael Ryan.

Doucet told lower courts of years of abuse at the hands of her husband.

He had pointed a gun at her a number of times, thrown pieces of furniture at her, and had threatened to "burn the f---king house down" with her and her daughter inside if she tried to leave.

She testified her husband had been charged with uttering threats against her, but that those charges were dropped. She also said she had called the RCMP on nine occasions and 911 on one occasion.

The woman testified that she had complained to the police, but had been told it was a "civil" matter and there was nothing they could do. However, when she began to seek out a hit man to kill her husband, the RCMP deployed an uncover officer to act as a hit man. Shortly after she agreed to pay him, she was arrested.
Nicole Ryan, a high school teacher in southwestern Nova Scotia, was arrested in March 2008 and charged with counselling an undercover police officer to kill her husband, Michael Ryan. (CBC )
The top court's decision, written by Justices Louis LeBel and Thomas Cromwell, said it was "disquieting" that "it seems the authorities were much quicker to intervene to protect Mr. Ryan than they had been to respond to her request for help in dealing with his reign of terror over her."

The only dissenting justice was Morris Fish, who argued Doucet should have been retried.

Unusual defence of 'duress'

Doucet's lawyers had used the unusual defence of duress, rather than self-defence, in her case. Duress can apply when someone reasonably fears for his or her life or safety, and sees no reasonable avenue of escape.

Self-defence is based on the premise that it is lawful to meet force with force. But in duress cases, the victim is usually an innocent third party, someone forced to commit a crime against his or her will, and not the person directly being threatened. The court found that duress did not apply in this case.

In a media lockup Friday before the decision was released publicly, duress was explained using the example of someone wielding a gun and ordering a person to steal a laptop belonging to a third party. If the person being ordered to steal fought back, and attacked the gun-holder, that would be an example of committing an offence under duress.

The court did not consider the option of self-defence, because it had never been argued by the woman's lawyers, so the issue of whether self-defence could have been used in a case involving a hit man has not been settled by this appeal.

It's not clear whether a defence of self-defence would have been available to Doucet, since she was not living with her husband when she began to look for a hit man.


http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/2013/01/18/pol-supreme-court-duress-defence-battered-women.html



Then we have the husband's story;


Nicole Ryan: An interesting case in Canada


I found this article. In March 2008, Nicole Ryan of Nova Scotia was charged with conspiracy to commit murder after hiring at hitman to kill her husband, Michael Ryan. Her father was also charged with counseling to commit murder. The "hitman" was an undercover Mountie conducting a sting.

Ryan was acquitted in March 2010 based on a duress defense. She claimed she had been controlled, abused and threatened at gunpoint by her husband. Her lawyer argued that the RCMP (Royal Canadian Mounted Police) had failed to sufficiently respond to Ryan's numerous complaints against her husband. Based on threats against herself and their daughter, Ryan decided her only choice was to take matters into her own hands.

The acquittal is being appealed. Here's where it really gets interesting. Michael Ryan was not called to testify, but he has shared his side of the story. After columnist Stephen Kimber called Michael Ryan "a nasty piece of business" in this column about the case, Ryan replied to the accusations. I strongly encourage you to first read the news article, the column and ensuing comments, and the actual Supreme Court Decision. I went through this process, and my opinion changed several times as I continued to read.

Michael Ryan claims that the allegations of abuse were created for the defense in the trial. He said all corroborating witnesses simply testified about things Nicole had told them, therefore the only evidence against him was her word. He said she had multiple opportunities to report abuse prior to the trial and neglected to do so. He reported that it was he who had left her, that he had been granted custody of their daughter because she was an unfit mother, and that she was currently battling him for custody and for the couple's $1 million in assets and property. He also pointed out that 3 of Nicole's family members, including her father and sister, were found of guilty of assault against Michael Ryan and his girlfriend in an earlier incident. Apparently they had attacked Ryan and his girlfriend with a pipe. It appears that since it was the Crown who prosecuted and not Michael Ryan, he was not really represented in the trial.

http://nicolemueller.wordpress.com/2011/04/07/nicole-ryan-an-interesting-case-in-canada/
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Main / mother, 2 children in murder-suicide
Jan 15, 2013, 05:12 PM
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Investigators have released the identities of a woman and her two children in a double murder-suicide that has left emergency responders and a west Ottawa neighbourhood reeling.

Police were called to a Stittsville house at 25 Granite Ridge Dr. on Monday at about 5:30 p.m. ET after a man returned home and discovered the bodies of his wife and two children in the basement.

The confirmed victims are 40-year-old Alison Easton and her two children, six-year-old Katie (Katheryn) Corchis and 10-year-old Alex (Jon Alexander) Corchis.

Police sources said two notes were left inside the home -- one for the father and another for Ottawa police.

Investigators believe Easton killed her children and then herself. No charges are expected to be laid.

The murder weapon was a knife, police sources confirmed.

The deaths have rocked the west Ottawa community. Both children attended Stittsville Public School just across the street from their home, and the family was well known by neighbours.



more.....
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/story/2013/01/15/ottawa-double-murder-suicide-stittsville-mother-children-update.html?cmp=rss