The inquiry concluded that decades of systemic racism had contributed to the deaths and disappearances of hundreds of Indigenous women and girls
OTTAWA — It was Sonya Nadine Mae Cywink’s 31st birthday when she went missing in Ontario in mid-August of 1994.She had been planning to celebrate her birthday by meeting her sister, Meggie Cywink, at a Toronto Blue Jays game. But she never showed up.
“Families, communities, and allies have not received any information about what governments — either federal or provincial — have been doing over the past year on this file,” she said. “Instead of a national action plan, we are left with a lack-of-action plan,” said association president Lorraine Whitman.
Whitman said using the pandemic as an excuse for not delivering a plan is a “double slap in the face” to Indigenous women who are facing even greater risks of violence because of isolation measures aimed at slowing the spread of the novel coronavirus.
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