Winnipeg, June 24, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — The National Family and Survivors Circle Inc. (NFSC Inc.) welcomes the government’s significant reforms to Canada’s Criminal Code, including the recognition of femicide as first-degree murder and the criminalization of coercive control in intimate relationships, as well as Canada’s ratification of the Inter-American Convention on the Prevention, Punishment, and Eradication of Violence Against Women (Belém do Pará Convention).