I was part of a nationwide CBC series “Stopping Domestic Violence” that looked at the crisis of intimate partner violence in Canada and also for solutions. For Saskatchewan, I sought out staggering numbers, government accountability and heartbreaking accounts from those who got out or those who got left behind.

Sister of domestic homicide victim says public awareness crucial in prevention

Brianda Robillard often looks at her son and wonders what nickname her sister Brandy would have given him. Brandy was known for giving names to all of the family nephews. "When I look at my baby, I always imagine how it would be if my sister was alive." Brianda was four months pregnant when Chester Bigeye beat 24-year-old Brandy to death in 2018 in Black Lake, Sask. Their mom Lucy still cries and prays in the morning when she thinks about her.

"I can still hear her — still hear her say mom.”

Sask. domestic violence survivor says lack of services could make victims 'suffer in silence'

Savannah Hodgson says she thought she was going to die. She and her husband had been married about three years when the relationship took a near-deadly turn. They have a son together and she had two girls from a previous relationship. He came after her — first with a chainsaw and then with a gun — at their acreage in Kennedy, Saskatchewan on July 2, 2018.

Sask. shelters turn away people fleeing domestic violence more than 600 times per month

Women and children fleeing domestic abuse were turned away from shelters more than 600 times in one month in Saskatchewan, according to a CBC News investigation…

"You're ready to leave today — not next Thursday, not two Thursdays from now," Giesbrecht, the director of research for the Provincial Association of Transition Houses in Saskatchewan (PATHS), said.

"I think there's a lot of people that just slip through the cracks because the services can't be there when they need it."