Province suddenly slashes funding to rural women’s shelters

Cat Champagne is the executive director at the Alberta Council of Women’s Shelters. PHOTO BY DAVID BLOOM /Postmedia, file Article content Abused women seeking shelter in a dozen Alberta communities are the losers after the province suddenly slashed $1 million in funding to the organizations that can help. Article content Despite a modest net gain after more than a decade of stagnant funding, the government put shelters in rural areas especially in a “rob Petra to partly pay Paula” situation with cuts set for July 1, said Cat Champagne, executive director at the Alberta Council of Women’s Shelt…