Canada makes femicide first-degree murder as all three major Criminal Code reforms become law

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'The law gives the justice system stronger tools to intervene earlier to sexual violence, gender-based, and intimate partner violence before that violence turns fatal. More specifically, the changes:

• make femicide first degree murder, the most serious homicide offence
• create a new offence of coercive control in intimate relationships, targeting patterns of threats, isolation, or manipulation before violence escalates
• update criminal harassment provisions to make them easier to prove in court
• make it a crime to threaten to distribute non-consensual intimate images, including sexual deepfakes
• increase the maximum penalty for sexual assault on summary conviction, non-consensual distribution of intimate images, and voyeurism'