Monthly Archives: November 2010

Oppose Dangerous Offender Designation for Indigenous Women

By admin | Published: November 10, 2010

SUPPORT RENÉE ACOBY
Renée Acoby, an Ojibwe woman from Manitoba, is currently facing the
Dangerous Offender application following a public hearing in
Kitchener. She was originally convicted ten years ago on a 3.5-year
sentence for trafficking cocaine and assault with a weapon. Pregnant
when imprisoned, her one-year-old was removed from her after she
smoked marijuana and took some valium one evening [...]

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Moon Setting on Sisters in Spirit?

By admin | Published: November 4, 2010

http://aptn.ca/pages/news/2010/11/04/moon-setting-on-sisters-in-spirit/
By Jorge Barrera
APTN National News
The Conservative government is opposing the use of the name Sisters
and Spirit and any work on a groundbreaking database on murdered and
missing Aboriginal women cases if the Native Women’s Association of
Canada expects to receive any funding for new projects on the issue,
sources say.
The Conservative government has been slowly “smothering” the Sisters
in [...]

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