Why it’s still worth talking about violence against women
Thoughts on the National Day of Remembrance and Action on
Violence Against Women  by Nick Taylor-Vaisey  Cooper Street in
Ottawa.  This is Cooper Street in downtown Ottawa. If you’d
walked down that street at about 10 p.m. on Nov. 18, as I did,
you’d have seen a man yelling at a woman. You’d also have seen
the same man ordering a woman out of a beaten-up pick-up truck
and, when she wouldn’t budge, grabbing and pulling at her with
some force. You’d also have seen the man drive away with some
recklessness, the woman inside, yelling. Almost no one else
noticed. It’s the same thing that happens thousands of times in
Ottawa every single year. It’s common, simply put, to witness
that kind of thing.  The man didn’t slug the woman or shoot her
with a gun. He might not have committed a crime, even. But when
I saw what was happening, I noted his plate number and called
the police. I waited a while before making that call. Passersby
certainly weren’t grabbing fo