When I began my career in law enforcement, I had no idea that one day I would become a specialist in the area of family violence. It all started in the fall of 1984, when I graduated from the Atlantic Police Academy at Holland College in Charlottetown with a Corrections Diploma, and started working in [...]
Recently, a friend of mine jokingly referred to me as “PEI’s Jamie Oliver”. Oliver— the infamous “Naked Chef”—has become a media darling, and has been credited with single handedly changing the foods that British students eat at school. Over the past five years, I have appeared in the local media a number of times speaking [...]
When the news broke about the Vancouver police sealing off Robert Pickton’s Coquitlum, B.C. pig farm searching for bodies of more then 50 missing women from the Vancouver area, I was immediately glued to the news. In the weeks and months that followed, the number of murder charges against Pickton grew to 27. [...]
I was raped. It was no urban legend. No deranged stranger jumped out of a dark alley to attack me on my way home from bible study. I was raped, as most survivors are, by someone who I knew—a boy who had been my friend for several years and who I had recently been [...]
