Music duo raise cash to shoot cross-Canada video for murdered and missing Indigenous women song
(JB the First Lady and Chief Rock collaborated on the song Sisterz) Brandi Morin APTN…
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MMIWG Inquiry Anniversary
On June 3, 2019, Reclaiming Power and Place: The Final Report of the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls.
The report goes into detail on the struggle families have with authorities over loved ones that have either been murdered or gone missing – and labels what Indigenous women have experienced since colonization as genocide.
The commissioners released 231 Calls for Justice from provincial, territorial and federal authorities.
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RCMP VIP unit worried demonstrators could embarrass federal ministers during MMIW roundtable: docs
Documents cast doubt on claim by Status of Women Minister Kellie Leitch RCMP reason she couldn’t attend joint press conference
Alberta becomes second province to apologize to residential school survivors, then calls for action on MMIW
(Editors Note: APTN National News originally reported that Alberta was the first province to apologize…
Group blocks motorists who refuse MMIW flyer at Ontario/Manitoba border
APTN National News A group of Aboriginal people were blocking motorists along the Trans-Canada Highway…
AFN’s Bellegarde wants meeting with top Mountie over unreleased Indigenous women data
APTN National News OTTAWA—Assembly of First Nations National Chief Perry Bellegarde is requesting a meeting…
Some calling on Valcourt to resign over MMIW statistics
APTN National News There are calls for Aboriginal Affairs Minister Bernard Valcourt to resign. They…
Young Medicine heading to UN to speak on MMIW
A First Nation musical duo from Edmonton will be taking the plight of missing and murdered Indigenous women to the United Nations.
Nunavut government wants a ‘Nunavut’ solution to MMIW
APTN National News The Nunavut territorial government doesn’t want to take part in a national…
Michele Pineault talks about MMIW meeting with federal ministers
APTN National News It was a long painful day. Family members had four minutes at…
