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After high-profile resignations, families try to keep hope in MMIWG Inquiry

After high-profile resignations, families try to keep hope in MMIWG Inquiry

When the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG) was announced by the Trudeau government last August and launched a month later, there was a genuine sense of hope. Some families had been waiting decades for […]

Blackned family still waiting for answers as investigation is reopened

Blackned family still waiting for answers as investigation is reopened

Rose-Ann Blackned was 24 and a mother of two when her frozen body was found November 16, 1991, in Val-d’Or. She had been missing for nine days. Her family has always claimed her death was not thoroughly investigated by police. […]

Demanding real justice for missing and murdered Indigenous women

Demanding real justice for missing and murdered Indigenous women

“Two years,” observed Idle No More organizer Melissa Mollen-Dupuis, speaking about the mandate of the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls. “That’s two years of women dying, women disappearing, young girls being put into pimps’ hands […]