Male-targeted prevention programs needed to address N.S. domestic violence epidemic, experts say

Long before Brenda Tatlock-Burke was killed by her husband in October, there were signs of his controlling and coercive behaviour.“As my mom’s kids, if we said something he disapproved of, we were literally not allowed to go and see her,” Tatlock-Burke’s daughter, Tara Graham, said of her stepfather, retired RCMP officer Mike Burke. “He did that with friendships and relatives of hers over the years. He was controlling the money, the finances.”