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April 30, 2009
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/090430/national/missing_women
By Sue Bailey, The Canadian Press
OTTAWA - Police and public safety officials are failing native women who vanish or are murdered at startling rates amid public indifference, says a new report.
The Native Women’s Association of Canada says 520 girls and women have disappeared or been killed since 1970. About half the cases now entered in [...]
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April 24, 2009
Maisy Odjick and Shannon Alexander have been missing from Maniwaki, QC since September 2008.
Please join in a search led by Search and Rescue Global 1.
For more information and to find out how to get involved, go to:
http://www.findmaisyandshannon.com/Call-for-Volunteers.html
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April 20, 2009
Tiffany Morrison, a 25-year old Mohawk woman from Kahnawake, outside of Montreal, was last seen on June 18th, 2006.
Tiffany was seen at a bar in the nearby town of LaSalle, Quebec on the night she disappeared. She shared a taxi back to Kahnawake with a man from the community. He has told police that she [...]
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April 17, 2009
BILL CURRY
The Globe and Mail
April 13, 2009 at 8:39 PM EDT
OTTAWA — Parliament has less than a year to craft a new definition of “Indian” before Canadian native policy risks tumbling into chaos as the existing rules for determining native status are thrown out by the courts.
The clock is ticking after the B.C. Court of [...]
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April 16, 2009
Tera Fay Grace Jolly went missing in Waskaganish First Nation on February 28th, 2009. The community of about 2000 is located on the south-east shore of James Bay, and is one of many Cree communities in Northern Quebec dealing with brutal social and environmental impacts caused by the James Bay Project.
Tera, 16, was last seen [...]
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April 15, 2009
Maisy Odjick, 16, (left) and Shannon Alexander, 17, (right) went missing from their reserve, Kitigan Zibi Anishinabeg First Nation (close to Maniwaki and Ottawa) on September 5th, 2008, just days before the Walk4Justice rally hit Ottawa. Numerous First Nations women and men had just walked from Vancouver to Ottawa to raise awareness about violence aganist [...]
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April 10, 2009
Differences between men and women in the pre-1985 law were preserved in the transition to the new legislative regime. READ MORE.
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April 10, 2009
On April 3rd, demonstrations in Montréal, Ottawa and Mexico were held to express opposition to the presence of Francisco Barrio Terrazas, Mexico’s new ambassador to Canada. Hundreds of women were killed while on Terrazas’ watch. READ MORE.
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April 5, 2009
Although October 4th is the official day for Sisters in Spirit’s annual vigil to honour and remember the Indigenous women and girls who have either gone missing or been murdered, the second of two very heavy events on March 17th could not simply end without at least a few candles lit, and a little bit [...]
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April 3, 2009
On March 17th a Panel Presentation at Atwater Library brought hundreds of people out, many of whom were standing for over two hours. The panelists included Beverley Jacobs (president of NWAC), Ellen Gabriel (president of QNW), Laurie Odjick (mother of Maisy Odjick who has been missing since September), Bridget Tolley (daughter of Gladys Tolley who [...]