National Poll reveals 80% of Canada supports MMIW inquiry
angusreid.org – As Prime Minister Justin Trudeau prepares to meet with indigenous leaders in Vancouver this week, a new survey by the Angus Reid Institute finds…
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Provinces agree to work on MMIW national inquiry
WINNIPEG – Provincial premieres have agreed to support and cooperate with a national inquiry into the crisis of missing and murdered indigenous women and girls…
Alleged Killer of Tina Fontaine – Raymond Joseph Cormier, 53, charged with murder
WINNIPEG – Winnipeg Police announced in a press release on Friday afternoon that 53-year-old Raymond Joseph Cormier, formerly of New Brunswick, has been charged with…
Bodies pulled from Winnipeg river tell a familiar story about the plight of Indigenous people
Two bodies recently pulled from the same river were that of a First Nations man and girl. Last Sunday, Faron Hall, age unknown, and Tina…
Niagara wants an Inquiry for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls
St Catharines – Niagara residents are organizing a peaceful awareness rally for this Saturday, March 15th at nNoon at the Gazebo at Montebello Park on 64 Ontario Street in St Catharines.
OPP charge three men from Tyendinaga blockade
NAPANEE,ON – Ontario Provincial Police released a statement this afternoon listing the charges laid following arrests at Tyendinaga Saturday.
Missing Inuk woman found slain
Another one of our girls has been found dead. The disappearance of Loretta Saunders, 26, has now shifted into a homicide investigation. The body of Saunders, who is Inuk from Labrador and was almost three months pregnant, was found Wednesday afternoon along the Trans-Canada Highway in New Brunswick.
Missing woman’s suspected killers arrested
HALIFAX – Loretta Saunders, a 26-year-old Inuk Student at Saint Mary’s University in Halifax, will not be soon forgotten. She was writing her University thesis on the Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women across Canada last week when she herself became another number to add to the more than 800 names already on the statistic sheet.
Crowd of over 600 gathers to Honor Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women
TORONTO – “The strawberry represents love, courage, and women”, explained Wanda Whitebird at the 9th Annual Strawberry Ceremony Honoring Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and those who have died violent deaths by colonialism.