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Violence against Indigenous women in Canada: The legal and moral imperatives behind the inquiry’s calls for justice

Chantelle Bellrichard, CBC News
Posted: Monday, June 10, 2019 at 09:58 — Last Updated: Monday, June 10, 2019 at 10:00
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In the wake of the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls’ final report, attention is now

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Canada General Politics Politics (Canada) 

Canadian PM says deaths and disappearances of Indigenous women and girls amount to ‘genocide’

Catharine Tunney, CBC News
Posted: Tuesday, June 4, 2019 at 14:08
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Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says his government accepts that the murders and disappearances of Indigenous women and girls across

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Canada General Society Society (Canada) 

Violence & Indigenous women in Canada: Support available for family members reading inquiry’s final report

CBC News
Posted: Tuesday, June 4, 2019 at 09:55 — Last Updated: Tuesday, June 4, 2019 at 14:14
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Aftercare should not be an afterthought. That’s the message a network of support workers from across the country is sending

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Canada General Politics Politics (Canada) 

Report on violence against Indigenous women a ‘wake-up call’ for Canada, says Pauktuutit president

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic @arctic_eq
Posted: Monday, June 3, 2019 at 16:21 — Last Updated: Friday, June 7, 2019 at 14:35
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The final report on violence against Indigenous woman in Canada should serve as a wake-up call for the country, but 

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Canada General Politics Politics (Canada) 

Canada: Violence against Indigenous women, girls in Quebec often neglected, national inquiry says

CBC News
Posted: Monday, June 3, 2019 at 14:07 — Last Updated: Tuesday, June 4, 2019 at 11:42
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The national inquiry into missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls has released a separate report about violence in Quebec,

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Canada General Politics Politics (Canada) 

Canada’s inquiry into missing and murdered Indigenous women issues final report with sweeping calls for change

John Paul Tasker, CBC News
Posted: Monday, June 3, 2019 at 13:17 — Last Updated: Tuesday, June 4, 2019 at 09:58
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After more than three years, dozens of community meetings and testimony from well over 2,000 Canadians, the missing and murdered

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Canada General Politics Politics (Canada) 

231 ‘imperative’ changes: Calls for justice from Canada’s inquiry on missing and murdered Indigenous women

CBC News
Posted: Monday, June 3, 2019 at 09:49 — Last Updated: Monday, June 3, 2019 at 14:07
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There are 231 steps that need to be taken by governments and Canadians in order to end the genocide against

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Canada Society (Canada) 

Inuit-specific mental health services among recommendations in Canadian report on violence against Indigenous women

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic @arctic_eq
Posted: Friday, May 31, 2019 at 16:20 — Last Updated: Monday, June 3, 2019 at 10:01
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Culturally relevant  policing and mental health services are among the Inuit-specific recommendations in a Canadian report on violence against Indigenous

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National inquiry calls murders and disappearances of Indigenous women a ‘Canadian genocide’

Jorge Barrera, CBC News
Posted: Friday, May 31, 2019 at 13:36 — Last Updated: Monday, June 3, 2019 at 10:02
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The thousands of Indigenous women and girls who were murdered or disappeared across the country in recent decades are victims

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National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls set to present final report in June

CBC News
Posted: Wednesday, April 10, 2019 at 14:25 — Last Updated: Friday, April 12, 2019 at 16:37
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The National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG) is set to present its final report June

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Indigenous women and girls: advocates demand federal plan before October election

Nic Meloney, CBC News
Posted: Friday, February 8, 2019 at 10:29
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A coalition of human rights advocates is imploring the federal government to act now on decades of recommendations to address

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Canada General News Society Society (Canada) 

Mining and energy projects near Indigenous communities undermine womens’ safety, experts tell Canada’s inquiry into missing and murdered Indigenous women

Julia Page, CBC News
Posted: Wednesday, September 19, 2018 at 10:15
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Energy and mining projects in remote parts of Canada jeopardize the safety of Indigenous women and their families living there,

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Canada’s inquiry into violence against Indigenous women focuses on resilience to end hearings in Arctic

Garrett Hinchey, CBC News
Posted: Friday, September 14, 2018 at 10:09
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A passionate speech from one of the commissioners of Canada’s national inquiry into missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls,

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Canada General News Society Society (Canada) 

Indigenous LGBTQ issues discussed at inquiry into violence against Indigenous women, in Northern Canada

Garrett Hinchey, CBC News
Posted: Thursday, September 13, 2018 at 10:17
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A glaring gap in supports for LGBTQ and two-spirit Indigenous people is putting them at risk of harm, commissioners heard

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Canada General News Society Society (Canada) 

Support in early-life key to well-being, Canada’s inquiry into violence against Indigenous women hears

Garrett Hinchey, CBC News
Posted: Wednesday, September 12, 2018 at 10:00 — Last Updated: Wednesday, September 12, 2018 at 10:05
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The importance of health and well-being in early life for Indigenous people — and their ties to colonial violence —

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