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On a chilly January morning, hundreds of mourners, advocates and community members congregated outside the Victoria courthouse for a melancholic gathering, remembering victims of intimate partner violence. The crowd was drawn to the courthouse by the Jan. 21 appearance of Muhammed Basar, who was charged with the second-degree murder of his former partner Laura Gover. The 41-year-old was found dead in her Saanich home Jan. 5. Gover was the mother of two daughters and was lauded as a highly respected instructor at Camosun College. A GoFundMe started by a family friend has raised over $300,000 for her daughters. Records indicate Basar ...

Hundreds of people gathered outside the Victoria court house to remember a mother of two killed in an alleged case of intimate partner violence. As CBC’s Katie DeRosa reports, they’re calling on the province and the federal government to do more to protect women.

Article in Times Colonist (November 30, 2025) by Andrew A. Duffy with photo by Adrian Lam. Cridge programs help everyone from women fleeing intimate partner abuse to young parents in a difficult spot and people with brain injuries or complex health needs. With age comes experience, and the Cridge Centre for the Family has certainly picked up a few things over its 152-year history. The organization, on a hill overlooking the city at Hillside Avenue and Cook Street, has learned that being there for people in moments of crisis is important, but staying with them on the road to recovery ...

A commentary in Times Colonist (May 7, 2025) by Tori Dach, assistant manager at the Cridge Centre for the Family who deals with ­intimate partner violence and is a brain-injury co-ordinator. Photo by Hilla Kerner of a vigil held in Vancouver in 2022 to pay respects to 10 B.C. women killed as a result of domestic violence that year.  Maybe things start as typical bickering among couples, or maybe the rage blows up out of nowhere. The aggressor slaps, pushes and punches before grabbing their partner around the neck, squeezing tight as they gasp for air. And in that moment, ...

A family legacy dating back to 150 years fuels a donation that will sustain the Second Chance Cafe in Saanich for years to come. Growing up in the Cridge family comes with stories of community works dating as far back as great, great, great grandfather Bishop Edward Cridge whose work alongside wife Mary led to the creation of the BC Protestant Orphans Home in Victoria in 1873. The orphanage shifted focus by 1970 and became The Bishop Cridge Centre for the Family, altered in 1980 to what it’s called today, The Cridge Centre for the Family. It developed from an ...