Behind serial killer cases, Canada's "forsaken" women

[evewithanapple]

Sarah de Vries started running away when she was 13, in 1983. She lived in cheap apartments and grim hotels in downtown Vancouver, British Columbia - places that would let a teenager turn tricks. Later, she got hooked on heroin

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[romp]

I was pleasantly surprised by Oppal's report. Groups like the VPD say they've already made the needed improvements but I can't believe anyone truly believes that the situation is solved.

This is a problem everywhere, yeah? People who are seen as of Less Than--women, Aboriginal, sex workers, addicts, the poor--are hunted in large part because the killers know they're undervalued and more likely to lack a support system. It seems like we still need everyone to accept this fact and that it's wrong.

Idle No More FB just posted this

[romp]

Justice for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women

[natyanayaki]

:'(

[mahsox_mahsox]

There are so many missing people and unidentified bodies and serial predators all across North America. People who live in the USA can indirectly help the work in Canada by paying attention to how thorough their local police are being with investigations, how often cold cases are reviewed, whether their local police are bothering to share information with the public using http://www.namus.gov/ so that people can work effectively on the cases of their own missing relatives. Often solving one case leads to progress on other cases.

[poetic_pixie_13]

The way the police treat First Nations and Inuit communities is absolutely vile. Women grow up knowing that they have to be careful, that their lives aren't worth much to the people who are supposed to protect them.

I just don't understand how people can claim that the attempted genocide of First Nations and Inuit peoples somehow stopped.

Canada is still wrestling with what the Pickton case means.

Yeah, no. Lbr, Canada couldn't wait to forget Pickton and the ugly mirror that case was.