WINNIPEG – After seven months of research, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police released their study on missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls in Canada today. Over the past seven months, the RCMP collected data and in their final report, stated they had the names of 1,181 Indigenous women and girls who were either murdered or who had disappeared in the time period from 1980-2012.
On June 24, 2009, Levi Schaeffer, 30 years old, was fatally shot by an Ontario Provincial Police officer. Since then, Levi’s mother, Ruth has been fighting for justice.
The circumstances of my arrest on November 26th while covering the Elsipogtog story for the Two Row Times and the Halifax Media Coop is in my opinion, a wrongful enforcement of an injunction that I do not believe the RCMP of New Brunswick understand.
Many questions remain, but what is clear is that on the morning October 17th the RCMP moved in on a peaceful protest against SWN – a fracking exploration company with equipment stationed in an Irving compound in Rexton, NB.
