A 33-year-old woman who died this week in Thompson in what police are investigating as a homicide has been identified as a mother of three from Bunibonibee Cree Nation, says Manitoba Keewatinowi Okimakanak.
Last week, we learned Canada has crossed a terrible threshold: 50 per cent of all women in federal prisons are now Indigenous. Lawyer Corey Shefman asks: will this shameful reality continue to be ignored by politicians, policy-makers and the Canadian public?
An inquiry into missing and murdered First Nations women and children will be held in Australia after the country’s Senate voted to a launch a committee to investigate systemic causes of violence.