In Alberta between 1980 and 2012, 206 Indigenous women were murdered – accounting for 28 per cent of all female murder victims during that time.
Nearly 200 people took to Calgary's Stephen Avenue for the 21st annual Awo Taan Sisters In Spirit walk and vigil Friday. The gathering coincides with other walks and vigils across Canada to raise awareness for MMIWG2S+.Between 1980 and 2012 in Alberta, 206 Indigenous women were murdered. This accounts for 28 per cent of all female murder victims during that time. Nearly 200 people took to Calgary's Stephen Avenue for the 21st annual Awo Taan Sisters In Spirit walk and vigil Friday.
"Joey's limbs are still in Calgary landfills," English told CBC News. "It just shows me I'm a mother that still really loves her daughter as any other mother would love their children. I just will not give up."Rather than call 911 when he found English dead, the man she had been doing drugs with stored her body under his bed for a day before dismembering her. He put her remains in garbage bags and a suitcase and discarded them in several locations near his home.
Elder Diane Eaglespeaker, from Kainai Nation, delivers a speech at the 21st annual Awo Taan Sisters In Spirit walk and vigil on Friday. According to the Alberta government's website, Indigenous women in Canada are three times more likely to be victims of violence than non-Indigenous women. "I don't think as many as there should be considering all the work that's being done since the Indian Residential School Agreement was signed, and we had the Commission put together, the National Inquiry commission and all these great reports with great road maps that nobody really reads or actions," she said.
Canada Latest News, Canada Headlines
Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.
An 1875 farmhouse with 21st-century attitudeViews of lush, rolling fields through impossibly long windows punctuate a rebuilt home in Picton, Ont.
Read more »
Love it or hate it, Brutalist architecture has a place in the 21st centuryU of T Scarborough Campus
Read more »
Dozens of children drown while bathing in swollen rivers, ponds during Hindu festival in IndiaLocal media report that some of the rivers and ponds in the eastern state of Bihar had been swollen by floods after heavy rains
Read more »
Rescue missions after Helene's flooding include dozens stranded on Tennessee hospital roofNASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Patients and their caregivers sought shelter Friday on a Tennessee hospital's roof after flooding caused by Hurricane Helene drove them from the building's interior and conditions made rescue efforts difficult.
Read more »
Rescue missions after Helene's flooding include dozens stranded on Tennessee hospital roofNASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Patients and their caregivers sought shelter Friday on a Tennessee hospital's roof after flooding caused by Hurricane Helene drove them from the building's interior and conditions made rescue efforts difficult.
Read more »
Rescue missions after Helene's flooding include dozens stranded on Tennessee hospital roofNASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Patients and their caregivers sought shelter Friday on a Tennessee hospital's roof after flooding caused by Hurricane Helene drove them from the building's interior and conditions made rescue efforts difficult.
Read more »