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At the end of 2025, the Government of Alberta decided to quietly dismantle the Family Violence Death Review Committee — an independent provincial body created to examine deaths related to family violence and identify how future deaths could be prevented.

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For anyone who wants to see family violence and femicide end in Alberta, this decision should set off alarm bells.

Between 2011 and 2013, I was part of the policy and advocacy effort that pushed for the creation of this committee. That work was driven by mounting evidence that Alberta lacked a formal, cross-sector mechanism for learning from deaths caused by family violence — and by the recognition that without structured reviews, the same systemic shortcomings would continue to cost lives.

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The rationale was straightforward and evidence-based: When a life is lost to family violence, governments have a responsibility to assess how that tragedy happened — not to assign........

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