10/02/2026
Reminder! The TAKE BACK THE NIGHT march is tonight along Main Street. It’s a family friendly event with goodies, lanterns, and free stickers!
TBTN started decades ago on American university campuses in response to assaults on women. TBTN then quickly spread around the world. Fast forward to 2026 and gender-based violence is STILL a national and international emergency. In Canada the evidence of GBV is all around us, from the heartbreaking rates of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls (MMIWG) to the sexual assault of 1 in 5 Canadian women and girls. This week the focus has again returned to an American university campus where a young women was assaulted for hours by a group of men who received little consequence. Next week there will be another public case, but the vast majority of sexual assaults, trafficking, intimate partner violence, and femicides happen without a spotlight and remain hidden due to power, coercion, shame, and secrecy.
Men and boys, women and girls, come out to Main Street tonight and light up the darkness to spread awareness and hope for victims of gendered crimes.