[14] Silverman founded the Family of Men support society, and served as president and program coordinator for the organization.

[18] An erroneous claim that MASH4077 took in its first refugee in 2011, which appears on a number of other websites, is based on a misreading of Earl's announcement in 2011 on the NCFM website, not of the first time a male victim had been housed by MASH4077, but of the first time a male victim had been both referred by the local provincial government and funded by a grant (of $1,000) from them, thus making Earl optimistic that his decade's-long advocacy on behalf of male domestic violence victims was finally being recognized as legitimate.

[14] In early 2013, Silverman announced that the sanctuary will be closing because he could no longer afford to run it due to a lack of funding.

Earl left a four-page suicide note, condemning the government for failing to recognize male victims of domestic abuse.

[13] Silverman's will directed that the funds from his estate should be dispersed so as to create an 'educational scholarship for male victims of female perpetrated domestic violence.'

"[25] Then Wildrose Party leader Danielle Smith tweeted her condolences, stating she was "reflecting on what he spent his life fighting for.