‘Uphill battle’: Criminal Code must include definition for femicide, advocates say | Unpublished
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Source Feed: Global News - Ottawa
Author: Globalnews Digital
Publication Date: June 8, 2025 - 11:46

‘Uphill battle’: Criminal Code must include definition for femicide, advocates say

June 8, 2025
Advocates urge Ottawa to define femicide in the criminal code as more Ontario police use the term to describe gender-based killings.


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A Crown attorney asserted in closing submissions on Wednesday that Michael McLeod repeatedly lied to police about what happened on the night that he and four of his former world junior hockey teammates allegedly sexually assaulted a woman in a London, Ont., hotel. The woman, known as E.M., because her name is protected by a publication ban, met Mr. McLeod at a London bar following a Hockey Canada gala to celebrate the team in June, 2018, and the two went back to his hotel room and had consensual sex.
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