Press Releases Featured Nov 12, 2025 Open Letter to Commissioner Anne Kelly, the Office of the Correctional Investigator, Public Safety Canada, Canadian Human Rights Commission, and Senator Kim Pate Nov 12, 2025 Read More → Nov 12, 2025 Sep 25, 2025 This World Contraception Day Wellness Within Repeats Call for Free Contraception Sep 25, 2025 Read More → Sep 25, 2025 Sep 22, 2025 Bringing Free Contraception Access to Nova Scotia Sep 22, 2025 Read More → Sep 22, 2025 Apr 23, 2025 Wellness Within Supports CPSBC's New Standard of Practice on Care for Incarcerated Patients Apr 23, 2025 Read More → Apr 23, 2025 Mar 10, 2025 Wellness Within Calls for Removal of Police from Mental Health Crisis Response Following Deaths in Custody Mar 10, 2025 Read More → Mar 10, 2025 Mar 6, 2025 Wellness Within Condemns NS Budget for Failure to Address Gender-Based Violence Mar 6, 2025 Read More → Mar 6, 2025 Mar 3, 2025 Manitoba Signs Federal Pharmacare Deal and Nova Scotia Should Too Mar 3, 2025 Read More → Mar 3, 2025 Jan 20, 2025 Gender-Based Violence & Contraception Access Jan 20, 2025 Read More → Jan 20, 2025 Jan 16, 2025 Intimate Partner Violence and Defunding the Police Jan 16, 2025 Read More → Jan 16, 2025 Nov 20, 2024 Nova Scotia Provincial Parties Respond to the Call For Universal Contraception Nov 20, 2024 Read More → Nov 20, 2024 Nov 15, 2024 Message of Solidarity: Surge of Intimate Partner Violence-Related Deaths in NS Nov 15, 2024 Read More → Nov 15, 2024 Nov 11, 2024 Report Highlights Consequences of Rising Transfers of Incarcerated Women Nov 11, 2024 Read More → Nov 11, 2024 Oct 16, 2024 Wellness Within Repeats Call for Universal Contraception Coverage in NS After Passing of Bill C-64 Oct 16, 2024 Read More → Oct 16, 2024 Sep 30, 2024 Wellness Within Stands with Indigenous Communities Amidst Rise in Killings by Police Sep 30, 2024 Read More → Sep 30, 2024 Sep 23, 2024 Wellness Within Pushes for Universal Coverage on World Contraception Day Sep 23, 2024 Read More → Sep 23, 2024 Jul 16, 2024 Wellness Within Rallies for Universal Pharmacare Jul 16, 2024 Read More → Jul 16, 2024 May 27, 2024 Wellness Within Calls for Access to Free Menstrual Products and Contraception in Prisons May 27, 2024 Read More → May 27, 2024 Apr 19, 2024 Wellness Within Calls for Removal of Minister Brad Johns Following Comments Dismissing Gender-Based Violence Apr 19, 2024 Read More → Apr 19, 2024 Mar 5, 2024 Wellness Within Condemns Proposed Changes to Alberta's Sex Ed Curriculum Mar 5, 2024 Read More → Mar 5, 2024 Feb 26, 2024 Wellness Within Welcomes NDP-Liberal Deal on Pharmacare Including Universal Contraception After Years of Advocacy Feb 26, 2024 Read More → Feb 26, 2024 Feb 16, 2024 Sexual Health Week: Wellness Within Calls to End Incarceration of Pregnant People Feb 16, 2024 Read More → Feb 16, 2024 Feb 12, 2024 Wellness Within Calls on NS Justice to Look at the Whole Picture: Bail Court an Insufficient Answer to Solve Backlogs Feb 12, 2024 Read More → Feb 12, 2024 Jan 31, 2024 Bell — Let Imprisoned People Talk Jan 31, 2024 Read More → Jan 31, 2024 Dec 15, 2023 Wellness Within Extends Support to the Faqiri Family After Inquest Verdict and Echoes Call for Change Dec 15, 2023 Read More → Dec 15, 2023 Nov 30, 2023 Statement of Solidarity: Justice for Soleiman Faqiri Nov 30, 2023 Read More → Nov 30, 2023 Nov 30, 2023 Wellness Within Calls for the Banning of Spit Hoods in Canada Nov 30, 2023 Read More → Nov 30, 2023 Nov 21, 2023 Statement of Solidarity: Justice for Soleiman Faqiri Nov 21, 2023 Read More → Nov 21, 2023 Nov 14, 2023 Statement of Solidarity with Palestine Nov 14, 2023 Read More → Nov 14, 2023 Sep 22, 2023 Wellness Within Joins Nova Scotia Coalition Calling for Universal Coverage of Contraception Sep 22, 2023 Read More → Sep 22, 2023 May 28, 2020Women’s Wellness Within: #justiceforregis January 29, 2019Women’s Wellness Within answers the Call: Let’s Talk about Prisoners’ Mental Health January 9, 2019Women’s Wellness Within Statement in Support of Wet’suwet’en Land Defenders April 23, 2018 Women’s Wellness Within: Annual General Meeting January 24, 2018Media Release: Goodwill Bot in Support of Women’s Wellness Within October 24, 2017For Immediate Release: Transphobia in Reporting about Grand Valley Prisoner September 19, 2017For Immediate Release: In response to the Sept 18, 2017 Chronicle Herald article “Truro prison staff concerned about presence of transgender inmate.” Women’s Wellness Within and Elizabeth Fry Societies of Cape Breton and Mainland Nova Scotia respond: Trans women are Women. March 6, 2017Women’s Wellness Within announces official launch and expanded services. November 16, 2016For Immediate Release: Nova Institution for Women Reinstates Critical Support Program for Pregnant Women November 14, 2016For Immediate Release: Nova Institution for Women Ends Critical Support Program for Pregnant Women March 30, 2016For Immediate Release: End Solitary Confinement of Pregnant Women in Nova Scotia Correctional Facilities