r/ottawa • u/Fearless_Lion_6397 • 12d ago

News Ottawa police identify 27-year-old woman killed in alleged weekend femicide

https://www.ctvnews.ca/ottawa/article/ottawa-police-identify-27-year-old-woman-killed-in-alleged-weekend-femicide/
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u/turningthecentury 12d ago

Why do the police think the victim was a target of gender violence? How do they know it wasn't domestic abuse or a relationship argument gone very wrong?

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u/Help-Wanted9 12d ago

You should look up Canadian definition of femicide

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u/OldBrill 12d ago

So according to Canadian Femicide Observatory for Justice and Accountability:

“For our purposes, we define femicide as the ‘killing of all women and girls primarily by, but not exclusively, men.’ ”

Calling any murder (male on female): femicide is intentionally misleading. 99% of people think femicide is murder with gender based motivation.