MMWIG

• Alberta programs supporting Indigenous women’s safety get $700K in grants to expand

  Tanya Fir, parliamentary secretary for status of women, said survivors need resources and supports to feel safe in their communities.

  Canada

  Feb 24, 2023
  
• ‘It’s for show’: Nippi-Albright critical of Sask. government’s commitment to MMIWG

  In front of a full visitors' gallery, MLAs took part in an emergency debate on the issue. The opposition's First Nations relations critic, though, called the action "lip service".

  Canada

  May 6, 2022
  
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• Top Catholic bishop hopes residential school apology will improve Indigenous relations

  Bishop William McGrattan, vice-president of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops, says there are plans to expand on the commitments outlined in Friday's apology.

  Canada

  Sep 26, 2021
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• Large crowds gather for Vancouver Women’s Memorial March amid Indigenous rights protests

  The annual march honouring women takes place this year against the backdrop of a surge in activism in support of Wet'suwet'en hereditary chiefs.

  Canada

  Feb 14, 2020
• ‘We also need Canadians to acknowledge it’: Manitoba leaders respond to MMIWG report

  The national inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG) released its final report Monday, describing the violence against First Nations, Metis and Inuit women and girls a form of “genocide” and a crisis “centuries in the making.

  Canada

  Jun 3, 2019
• ‘An appropriate word’: B.C. Indigenous community awaits report deeming missing, murdered women ‘genocide’

  "I agree with the strong wording because as an Indigenous woman I am six times more likely to be murdered," one woman told Global News. 

  Jun 2, 2019
• Mother’s Day MMWIG walk notes 15th anniversary

  Although the event happens on Mother's Day each year, the timing for the 2019 walk is particularly notable, given the recent high-profile murder conviction in the death of Indigenous woman Christine Wood.

  Crime

  May 12, 2019
• Family tells MMIWG hearings that police act differently to ‘white-passing’ appearance

  Family members of a murdered Inuk woman said Monday that merely appearing to be white often heightens police and public interest in a crime or missing person case involving an aboriginal person.

  Canada

  Oct 30, 2017