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Sisters in Spirit Community Engagement Workshop, Sept. 16th

The 2110 Centre for Gender Advocacy and Missing Justice invites you to attend a workshop by the Native Women’s Association of Canada: a Sisters In Spirit (SIS) Community Engagement Workshop.
This workshop is designed to educate participants on the SIS initiative and to inform individuals and communities on ways that they can take action on and [...]

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October 4th March & Vigil; a National day of Action

Sisters in Spirit March & Vigil
Sunday, October 4th, 6pm
Cabot Square (Atwater and St. Catherine)

The 4th annual SIS March & Vigil will take place in communities across the country, including Ottawa, Edmonton and Montreal. It is a national day of remembrance, respect, and demands for government action. Marchers will assemble at Cabot Square, and proceed east [...]

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Vigil for Maisy and Shannon: To commemorate one year since their disappearance

Sunday, September 6, 2009
Time:
7:00pm - 9:00pm
Location:
Kitigan Zibi at the Home Hardware
Street:
79 Kichi Mikan
City/Town:
Maniwaki, QC
Phone: 819-441-3055
email: mjacko@findmaisyandshannon.com
We will be starting from Home Hardware and walking through town to Nagishkodadiwin Park across from the Chateau Logue. You can choose to drive or just meet at Nagishkodadiwin Park. Complete information at http://www.findmaisyandshannon.com

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Families heartbroken 1 year after Quebec girls vanished: Maisy Odjick, 16, and Shannon Alexander, 17, last seen Sept. 6, 2008

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/ottawa/story/2009/09/02/maisy-odjig-shannon-alexander-missing-one-year-maniwaki.html
September 2, 2009
The disappearance of two teenage girls in Maniwaki, Que., one year ago has left a painful void in their families and their small Algonquin community.
Maisy Odjick, 16, and Shannon Alexander, 17, were last seen on Sept. 6, 2008.
A year later, Odjick’s clothes, her flute, her camera and treasured photos are still where she [...]

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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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Fun-loving pal mourned

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/ottsun/090720/canada/fun_loving_pal_mourned
Family and friends have confirmed Vanessa Tagoona is the 29-year-old woman who was found dead in an Ottawa motel room Friday.
Tagoona was discovered around 12:45 p.m. at the Concorde Motel at 333 Montreal Rd.
The Ottawa police major crimes unit is investigating the death, which police describe as “suspicious.”
A tribute page on the social-networking website Facebook [...]

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Film Screening: Finding Dawn & Stolen Sisters

***Please forward widely***
2110 Summer Night Screenings
The Missing Justice Campaign presents:
“Finding Dawn” & “Stolen Sisters: A Documentary”
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Film Screening
& Discussion with Bridget Tolley
THURSDAY July 23rd, 7pm
2035 St-Laurent
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*Finding Dawn*
Dawn Crey. Ramona Wilson. Daleen Kay Bosse. These are just three out of hundreds of Aboriginal women who have gone missing or been murdered in Canada over the past thirty [...]

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The Search for Maisy and Shannon

On may 2nd, the search for Maisy Odjick and Shannon Alexander continued, on the Kitigan Zibi reserve, 8 months after the two girls went missing. The search was organized by the Odjick family, with the help of Amnesty International, which donated  2 buses to help transport volunteers from Ottawa who wished to help with the [...]

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Search to Resume for Maisy and Shannon

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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