Latest News – CCFWE

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Press Release – Federal Election 2025: CCFWE Congratulates Mark Carney and Urges Action on Survivor Economic Empowerment (April 29, 2025)
Press Release – Federal Election 2025: CCFWE Wants Survivor Financial Independence Prioritized (March 31, 2025)
Press Release – Financial Futures Summit Report (May 8, 2024)
An Open Letter to TD, Scotiabank, RBC, CIBC, BMO, Interac, and Canadian Bankers Association (May 8, 2024)
Press Release – Call for House of Commons to Declare November 26 as National Economic Abuse Awareness Day (February 29, 2024)
Women’s Economic Empowerment is Crucial to Canada’s Strategies against Gender-Based Violence (February 12, 2024)
Press Release – Empowering Women: New App Combats Economic Abuse Amidst Rising Living Costs and Cases of Intimate Partner Violence (February 8, 2024)
Cost of living, housing crisis compounds issues of economic abuse: organization (November 27, 2023)
A lack of economic awareness or control over one’s finances can have long-term impacts (November, 2023)
How labour inequity makes women vulnerable to economic abuse (November, 2023)
Press Release – Advocates Promote National Awareness of Economic Abuse during Financial Literacy Month (October 30, 2023)
CCFWE Executive Director’s Speech on the Public Hearing of Bill 41 (Protection from Coerced Debt in relation to Human Trafficking) at the Legislative Assembly of Ontario (July 10, 2023)
Press Release – CCFWE was named the Winner of the CWE Gala 2023 Award in the Category of Community – Women’s Health and Wellbeing (June 7, 2023)
Building a Safety Net Against Economic Abuse (May 8, 2023)
CCFWE Statement on the Passing of Keira’s Law (April 24, 2023)
Why good KYC is a natural defence against financial gaslighting (April 14, 2023)
CCFWE Federal Budget 2023 Statement (March 28, 2023)
Press Release – CCFWE receives support from TD Bank Group to help address domestic economic abuse with a groundbreaking financial literacy project for visible minority communities (March 9, 2023)
As possible recession looms, advocate warns domestic violence could increase (January 13, 2023)
Press Release – National Study by CCFWE Shows 67% of Financial Institution Staff Would Not be able to Recognize Signs of Abuse (December 6, 2022)
Summit Statement from Jenna Sudds, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Women and Gender Equality and Youth
Family violence increases for 5th straight year in Canada. What’s behind the trend? (October 22, 2022)
Hon. Anita Vandenbeld Liberal Member of Parliament delivered her speech in the House of Common on the importance of addressing economic abuse (October 22, 2020)
Parliamentary committee proposes government make strategy to address financial abuse (June 22, 2022)
Press Release – CCFWE supports Bill C-233 (Keira’s Law) and stresses the importance of addressing Economic Abuse and Post Separation Abuse (April 27, 2022)
CCFWE Federal Budget 2022 Statement
An important issue that isn’t talked about enough; the signs and impacts of economic abuse (December 11, 2021)
NWT Status of Women launches campaign to fight economic abuse (November 28, 2021)
CCFWE and FinPowered Aim to End the Silent Reality of Economic Abuse (November 9, 2021)
Press Release – CCFWE CEO named to Ottawa’s Forty Under 40 (June 2, 2021)
CCFWE Founder honoured as 2021 L’Oréal Women of Worth (February 22, 2021)
Canada-wide survey of women’s shelters shows abuse more severe during pandemic (November 25, 2020)
Policy change needed to end economic abuse (November 24, 2020)
Economic abuse: The disproportionate impacts on Black women (October 8, 2020)
Press Release – CCFWE holding weekly virtual support groups to help domestic violence survivors during COVID-19 (June 18, 2020)