Outrage over community groups’ exclusion from Pickton inquiry
British Columbia’s Attorney General Bruce Penner has decided to deny all funding to community groups that were supposed to participate in the missing women’s inquiry.
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BC AG backs Oppal against critics
British Columbia’s Attorney General is defending the controversial decision to appoint former judge and attorney general Wally Oppal to lead an inquiry into how police handled murdered women’s cases in Vancouver before they caught serial killer Robert Pickton.
Calls rise for Oppal’s resignation
Activists are continuing their call for the removal of Wally Oppal as commissioner of British Columbia’s inquiry into Vancouver’s missing women.
Pickton Inquiry
Wayne Roberts, aptn National News British Columbia’s missing women’s commission of Inquiry held its first…
Others involved in Pickton killings: survivor
A woman who was taken out to Robert Pickton’s pig farm at least 10 times talks with APTN National News about surviving her encounters with Canada’s most prolific serial killer.
Moon setting on Sisters in Spirit?
The Conservative government is opposing the use of the name Sisters in 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.
‘This was a murder’
The violent death of a 22-year-old First Nations woman in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside has again sparked anger and allegations that police are ignoring the murder of women in this notorious section of the city.
Oppal says he won’t resign from inquiry
The man picked to chair a public inquiry into how police investigated the Robert Pickton case is responding to calls for his resignation.
AFN backs Pickton inquiry criticism
The Assembly of First Nations Thursday joined the chorus of criticism surrounding the launch of the British Columbia inquiry into the Robert Pickton case.