Originally published: Thursday, FEB. 16, 2017

Quebec has launched a review of sexual-assault complaints dismissed as unfounded by provincial police and has promised an audit of police practices in other cities and towns.

Originally published: Wednesday, FEB. 15, 2017

Originally published: Tuesday, FEB. 14, 2017

Ontario’s Minister of Community Safety says she feels “very strongly” that police services should consider outside oversight of sexual-assault case files.

Originally published: Sunday, FEB. 12, 2017

The London police detective who was placed under internal investigation for his handling of a 2010 sexual-assault complaint by a then-18-year-old Western University student has been cleared of professional misconduct, the woman at the centre of that case told The Globe and Mail.

Originally published: THURSDAY, FEB. 09, 2017

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Canada’s public safety ministers have started to lay the groundwork for a national strategy to deal with sexual-assault cases, to ensure police and prosecutors use a common set of practices in dealing with victims of sexual violence, The Globe and Mail has learned. The matter is expected to be discussed at the next meeting of federal, provincial and territorial ministers of public safety later this year to develop a “pan-Canadian approach,” a federal official said.

Originally published: TUESDAY, FEB. 07, 2017

Canada’s top law-enforcement official has implored police to reassess how they manage sex-assault complaints, as the country’s second-largest force joined several others in mounting a full-scale audit of every case closed as “unfounded”.

Originally published: MONDAY, FEB. 06, 2017

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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said the federal government is prepared to play a key role addressing issues around how institutions deal with victims of sexual assault, as police services across the country announce reviews into how such cases are handled in the wake of a Globe and Mail investigation.

Originally published: SUNDAY, FEB. 05, 2017

Ontario’s London Police Service will conduct a sweeping review of how its officers handle sexual-assault allegations, an audit that will include probing hundreds of cases dating back to 2010 that were dismissed as unfounded – a police term that means the detective believes the complaint is baseless.

Originally published: FRIDAY, FEB. 03, 2017

Originally published: FRIDAY, FEB. 03, 2017

The making of an investigation: the shocking discovery that led to 20 months of work, scores of interviews and hundreds of freedom of information requests to police forces across the country.