Erin Lee, a member of the Domestic Violence Death Review Committee in Ontario, says keeping Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) cases in the public eye is one way to fight what has been declared an epidemic in dozens of communities across Ontario.
She says that partnerships with the media help keep the conversation alive.
The first of 86 recommendations made by a jury into the inquest of the femicide death of three women by a former partner asked Ontario to declare IPV an epidemic. To date, the province has not.
Lee says cooperative efforts help get their messaging across to the general public.
Other partners, like municipal and county governments have also been welcome partners in ending IPV.
More than 100 have declared IPV as an epidemic.
The NDP put forth an opposition motion to have IPV declared an epidemic in Ontario back in April of 2024. It has not passed as of yet.