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British Columbia implements new measures to combat intimate partner violence, including treating abuse history as premeditation in murder cases and tracking reforms internally.
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.
The province will treat a history of abuse as evidence of premeditation in murder cases, aiming to ensure harsher penalties for repeat offenders.
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.
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.
British Columbia implementa nuevas medidas para combatir la violencia de pareja íntima, incluido el tratamiento del historial de abuso como premeditación en casos de asesinato y el seguimiento de las reformas internas.