Naturally. women feel vulnerable.

The latest outrage was July 2025 when five ex-members of Canada’s world junior hockey team were found not guilty of criminal assault.

The judge concluded the Crown couldn’t meet its onus on any of the charges.

Surely not another acquittal in a lengthy history of criminal assault against women in Canadian hockey?

Sarah Paciocco, a sexual assault and abuse crisis counsellor at Women in Crisis Algoma commented: “My concern is that because of the verdict, it’s going to end up getting kind of just forgotten about, that it was all a big misunderstanding and they didn’t do anything wrong. And that’s actually something really dangerous. We were really, really disappointed to hear the verdict.”

“I think it really drives home the point for people to understand

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