Despite notable advances in addressing violence against women, a culture of gender-based violence remains pervasive in North America and throughout the world. The recent U.S. election campaign exposed this violence and blatant misogyny both in political discourse and in the behaviour and response of the electorate.

Today is the World Day of Social Justice. You likely didn't know that. For me, every day is this one. Every day I invite Canadians to look at the settler colonial project, alive and well today, to understand its impact on Indigenous peoples, particularly women in this country and worldwide.

No More Silence, a grassroots network of Indigenous women and allies, was founded about 10 years ago in Toronto to call attention to the impunity surrounding the ongoing disappearances of Indigenous women in Canada. We have worked hard to break the silence and today "the crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous women is a part of mainstream media and public consciousness."