Child marriage rates were highest in Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta and the territories, said Alissa Koski, one of the study's co-authors.

How common is child marriage in Canada? While it’s common in other parts of the world, child marriage isn’t as common in Canada — but it still sometimes happens.

There are today more than 650 million women suffering the direct consequences of child marriage. Global instability - war and poverty - threatens to increase this.

Ontario, Alberta and Quebec have licensed the most child marriages in the last 18 years, said professor Alissa Koski, who researches the practice in Canada By Joseph Brean Published Jun 11, 2019 ...

The government of Canada has joined international efforts to end the marriage of children under the age of 18, but researchers say the practice goes on in Canada itself. Using data from statistics ...

Alberta leads the country in the rate of child marriages, according to new research, issuing 791 licences to teenagers ages 16 to 18 between 2000 and 2018. Breaking it down by sex, that’s five ...

By scouring provincial and territorial data from 2000 to 2018, Koski and Clark found marriage licenses had been granted for “at least 3,687” child marriages. That qualifier — at least ...

This is an injustice. Canadian law should not allow for child marriages, full stop. Since 2015, there has been legislation stating children cannot be forced to marry against their wishes.