'We'd been asking for a feminist analysis which is to look at women and women's position and what violence against women means in Nova Scotia.'
After the federal and provincial governments announced a joint independent review into the Nova Scotia shooting on Thursday, calls for a public inquiry are growing stronger.
“We’ve been speaking ever since, trying to bring in the aspect of misogyny, and the connection between male violence against women and mass shootings,” says Linda MacDonald, an organizer for the Nova Scotian Feminists Fighting Femicide group.
“We’d been asking for a feminist analysis which is to look at women and women’s position and what violence against women means in Nova Scotia,” Sarson says. Sarson notes that misogyny played a role in allowing the gunman’s violent past to slip through the cracks.
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