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flag British Columbia implements new measures to combat intimate partner violence, including treating abuse history as premeditation in murder cases and tracking reforms internally.

flag British Columbia has launched new measures to combat intimate partner violence, introducing a provincial framework to standardize risk assessments across the justice system and an internal accountability mechanism to track reforms. flag The province will treat a history of abuse as evidence of premeditation in murder cases, aiming to ensure harsher penalties for repeat offenders. flag These steps follow federal legislation, the Protecting Victims Act, which seeks to reclassify certain gender-motivated killings as first-degree murder, criminalize coercive control, and increase penalties for non-consensual deepfakes and image sharing. flag The reforms respond to rising concerns over gender-based violence, with 137 women and girls killed in Canada in 2025, including 27 in B.C.

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