Following a landmark ruling, the Supreme Court of Canada has created a new tort of intimate partner violence (IPV), which will allow those who have suffered harm through IPV to seek damages.

When a survivor in Kenora reaches out for help, the goal is simple: the right support, from the right people, without delay. That means services that communicate, organisations that share information, and a system where no one has to carry the weight of coordination alone: not the survivor, and not the frontline worker supporting them.

Last week, we were in Narrm for Women Deliver 2026: Four days, almost 6,000 participants from 189 countries, and conversations we're still thinking about. The work of gender equality cannot wait, and being there made that clearer than ever.

Women Deliver is the global gender equality conference. Every three years it brings thousands of people into the same room. Advocates, policy makers, frontline services, funders, researchers, and First Nations leaders. This year it lands in Narrm (Melbourne) from 27–30 April under the theme Change Calls Us Here.

When US Representative for Colorado Yara Zokaie stood on the House floor speaking about the cost of living crisis, she didn't know someone was photographing her without consent. Zokaie didn't know that photo would be circulated in a private legislative chat where her colleagues would compare her appearance to strippers and prostitutes. She didn't know it would leak, generating online harassment including doxxing threats that named her children's school.

Most service providers working in the family and domestic violence sector don't fear data. They fear being judged on data they were never set up to collect well.

Across Australia and Canada where Todaybreak programs are active, we see frontline teams being asked to feed government reporting with clean, comparable, outcome-useful data. In practice, they work in systems full of free-text boxes, inconsistent pick-lists, missing fields, and shifting templates. Reporting rules change. Funding cycles move. Tools lag. Staff do their best, then carry the guilt when data quality isn't there. It's the same story elsewhere.

Todaybreak works alongside nonprofit service providers on the frontlines of gender-based violence. Our role is to make sure they have the tools to protect people, support recovery, and act together—and to create space for new ideas, new voices, and new allies in that mission.

We’re pleased to share that the CLEAR Pathway to Uplift Project has secured $3.47 million in funding from Lotterywest, marking a major step forward in the digital transformation of Family and Domestic Violence (FDV) service delivery across Western Australia.

Many people will experience intimate partner or family violence—either directly or through someone they love. For those who haven’t, and are only beginning to grasp the scale of this crisis through the devastating headlines of women killed by men, this post is a place to start.

On March 11, 2025, an important event in Vancouver brought together frontline experts, government leaders, and nonprofit practitioners to explore how modern technology can meaningfully transform public safety. This wasn’t another discussion about why change is needed—it focused on how to make that change real.

Join us for the Safe with Milli Launch Event in Cornwall, Ontario, as we celebrate the public release of Milli, the groundbreaking personal safety app designed to support survivors of gender-based violence.

For survivors of violence, accessing support can be overwhelming. Many face barriers to safety, uncertainty about where to turn, and systems that are difficult to navigate. At the same time, frontline service providers work within fragmented, overstretched frameworks that don’t always provide the tools needed to deliver timely, coordinated support.

On February 14, a day often associated with love and connection, we mark the official incorporation of Todaybreak—a nonprofit organisation dedicated to leveraging technology to break cycles of gender-based violence and social inequity worldwide.