Video: Michele Anderson, team leader at Covenant House Toronto
On giving a voice to Canada’s homeless youth
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Video: Sophia Banks, trans woman activist
On life as a woman and believing survivors
’I’ve been groped so often I wonder if this is normal’
Sophia Banks, a trans woman activist based in Toronto
’It can end up being this big, dark secret’
Michele Anderson, team leader at Covenant House Toronto
’Finally, I just kind of succumbed. It was rape’
Cheri DiNovo, MPP for Parkdale-High Park in Toronto, speaks out about her own experience with sexual assault
‘If victims have support, they will follow through with prosecution’
Lucie Mathurin, a Crown prosecutor in Saint John, New Brunswick
‘I think somebody has opened the floodgate’
Sheila Macdonald, provincial co-ordinator of the Ontario Network of Sexual Assault/Domestic Violence Care and Treatment Centres
’I don’t think we need to change the law, I think we need to enforce the law more’
Sgt. Rob Tycholiz of the Winnipeg Police Service Sex Crimes Unit
’Social norms around sexual assault need to change’
Todd Minerson, executive director of the White Ribbon Campaign
‘This is not a condition that affects only women or only girls’
Rick Goodwin, executive director of the Ottawa-based Men’s Project, oversees one of the few freestanding agencies in Canada with a focus on men