The council of a town where a mother and children were found dead is writing to the provincial government asking it to declare intimate partner violence an epidemic.
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For news impacting Canada and around the world, sign up for breaking news alerts delivered directly to you when they happen.The council motion comes after provincial police were called to a home in the community of Harrow, in Essex, in June and found 41-year-old Carly Walsh and her two children, 13-year-old Madison and eight-year-old Hunter, dead from gunshot wounds.
Police said Carly Walsh’s husband and the children’s father, 42-year-old Steven Walsh, died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.Councillor Kim Verbeek, who brought forward the motion, says more than 100 municipalities have already declared intimate partner violence an epidemic, and doing so at the provincial level can call attention to the urgency and severity of the issue.Taxi scams are ‘very prevalent’ in Canada.
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