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What are the chances feminist Trudeau will provide Canadians with a national gender equality plan?
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Doreen Nicoll
| February 15, 2017

After Harper's reign of terror on everything Canadian, Trudeau was a beacon of hope. But, that light is quickly dimming while my disillusionment grows by leaps and bounds. The self-proclaimed feminist is looking more misogynous with each passing day.

On October 19, 2016 Trudeau whipped his party to vote against NDP MP Kennedy Stewart's private member's Bill C-237, the Candidate Gender Equity Act, which would have enhanced existing financial incentives ensuring greater gender parity during federal elections.

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WINGS
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Native women's multi-generational struggles in Canada

January 4, 2017
| A talk by Dr. Dawn Memee Lavelle-Harvard, past president of the Native Women's Association of Canada.
Length: 29:06 minutes (39.98 MB)
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Symposium creates 22 recommendations for inquiry into murdered and missing Indigenous women
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Doreen Nicoll
| February 24, 2016

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Murders and Disappearances of Indigenous Women and Girls: Planning for Change -- Towards a National Inquiry and an Effective National Action Plan was a two-day Symposium hosted by The Native Women's Association of Canada (NWAC), the Canadian Feminist Alliance for International Action (FAFIA), and the Canadian Journal of Women and the Law (CJWL).

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B.C. Minister's Advisory Council on Aboriginal Women
On Human Rights Day, Indigenous women still face two layers of discrimination
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Doreen Nicoll
| December 10, 2015

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December 10 is International Human Rights Day. It's also the last of the United Nation's 16 days to end violence against women and girls. Unfortunately, we didn't manage to end gendered violence or ensure gender equality -- yet.

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Activist Communique: Families of Sisters in Spirit press release
By
Krystalline Kraus
| October 4, 2011

Families of Sisters in Spirit press release - October 4, 2011

OTTAWA, ON, CANADA, ALGONQUIN TERRITORY - October 4, 2011: Families of Sisters in Spirit, along with our allies, call upon all peoples of this land to come together today and show solidarity and support for the families of missing and murdered Indigenous women.

Families are sharing stories of struggle and strength on Parliament Hill on October 4, 2011 at 10:30 a.m. for the 6th Annual Sisters in Spirit vigil. The vigil is followed by a solidarity march to Victoria Island at noon for a feast and social justice fair.

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in their own words

Sisters in Spirit vigils light a candle and feed the fire of remembrance

Canada's secret shame happens in plain sight, with 600 Aboriginal women having gone missing or been murdered in 30 years. Today we honour them across the country.

Angeline Eileen Pete, 28, reported missing from British Columbia in May. Roberta Dawn McIvor, 32, found murdered near Lake Winnipeg in July. Kimberley Nolin Napess, 15, last seen in Quebec City in August. And two Friday's ago, Verna Simard, 50, dead after plunging from the sixth-floor window of her residence in Vancouver. 

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The F Word
The F Word

The Missing Women's Commission of Inquiry

September 16, 2011
| The F Word takes a closer look at the Missing Women's Commission of Inquiry, featuring an interview with Native Women's Association of Canada president Jeannette Corbiere Lavell.
Length: 44:31
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Ottawa's political needs trump recording violence against Aboriginal women

Created in 2005, Sisters in Spirit has led the way in research on missing and murdered aboriginal women. Their April 2010 report "What Their Stories Tell Us," identified the knowledge gaps that have hurt the creation of effective policies and programming to address the high number of missing and murdered aboriginal women and girls in Canada.

So it mystifies many Aboriginal women and their advocates that Sisters in Spirit was shunned by the Conservatives in a recent $10 million announcement to deal with violence against Aboriginal women.

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Sisters in Spirit program used by feds to 'squeeze' Native Women's Association of Canada

The Conservative government opposes the use of the name Sisters in Spirit and any work on a groundbreaking database on murdered and missing Aboriginal women cases, and this is impacting any future funding the Native Women's Association of Canada expects to receive for new projects on the issue.

And the government has been slowly "smothering" the Sisters in Spirit project which is responsible for bringing to national attention the hundreds of "shocking" cases of murdered and missing Aboriginal women, say sources familiar with the file.

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Sisters in Spirit Vigil 2011

Tuesday, October 4, 2011 - 11:30am - 8:00pm

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Across Canada, Times vary, National
Canada
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Each year on Oct. 4, communities across Canada come together to honour the lives of missing and murdered Aboriginal women and girls. This year please come and show your solidarity with the families of these daughters, sisters, mothers -- there are hundreds and hundreds of unsolved and ignored cases in our country, and these women are the most vulnerable members of our society.

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