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Montreal Police Looking for Missing Kahnawake Teen

Bea Kwaronhiahawi Barnes.

The Montreal Police are asking for the public’s help in locating 17-year-old Bea Kwaronhiahawi Barnes, who was last seen on January 5. Police say she requires medication which she does not have with her. Police said they believe she is in the Chateauguay area. She was wearing a beige and white checked coat [...]

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Film Screenings with Bridget Tolley and Sue Martin

Over 50 people gathered the evening of July 23rd, at Montreal’s Independent Media Centre, for the screening of two films, Finding Dawn, and Stolen Sisters. They also came to hear the words of two women, whose stories brought the films to life. Bridget Tolley, a member of the Kitigan Zibi First Nation in Quebec whose [...]

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Harper government continues to ignore calls for probe into missing Aboriginal women

Taken from NationTalk.ca
http://www.nationtalk.ca/modules/news/article.php?storyid=22243
OTTAWA - Aboriginal women continue to feel targeted and vulnerable because the Harper government continues to ignore their calls for a judicial investigation into the devastatingly high number of missing and murdered Aboriginal women and girls, said Liberal Status of Women Critic Anita Neville and Aboriginal Affairs Critic Todd Russell.
“I have been doing [...]

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