Caribou Legs spoke to NSCC students during a stop in Truro this week. He is running to raise awareness about missing and murdered indigenous women. Also known as Brad Firth, the runner is going across Canada to raise awareness about missing and murdered indigenous women, as well as to honour women.

A globally renowned play is making its first English appearance in Montreal, highlighting the persisting trauma of residential schools on Indigenous communities through the use of stereotypes. Goldie, an Indigenous woman who became a sex worker in Vancouver's downtown eastside after leaving a residential school in the 90's, gets into a john's pickup truck one night and follows him back home.

The Manitoba government needs to step up with support programs and services that were promised to families of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls, says Bernadette Smith, whose sister has been missing for eight years.

It took longer than Barbara Kate Keam's lifetime for her family to finally find out what happened the night she was beaten to death. Keam, 21, of Norway House, Man., was found beaten to death in the remote community on June 7, 1981.

It's a stretch of highway in Northern B.C. that's infamously dubbed the Highway of Tears. In the last four decades there have been 18 documented cases of women who have been murdered, or gone missing, along Highway 16. Ten of those women are indigenous.

Vigils held across the country Tuesday to remember nearly 1200 murdered and missing indigenous woman. They blow in the blustery wind with an eery sense of forgotteness, 24 of them here along Comox Road on the Komoks reserve, red dresses hanging like clothes on a close line, but representing so much more.

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The condemnation comes as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau denounced Canada for treating Indigenous people with indifference and neglect.

Rene. Stacey. Shirley. Sandra. Molly. Pam. Cynthia. Florence. Nora. Crystal. These are just some of the names indigenous women that have gone missing from the Peace Region. They were honoured, along with their families and friends, during the Sisters In Spirit Vigil on Oct. 7.

McGill's third annual Consent Week began on Monday, September 29, with a vigil for missing and murdered Indigenous women. The event, organized collaboratively by Consent McGill, First Peoples' House, and Indigenous students, was held on lower field behind the Hochelaga Rock with roughly sixty people in attendance.

More than 100 people participated in the city's fifth annual Sisters in Spirit march in downtown Sudbury this morning, remembering missing and murdered First Nations women. Some estimate 500 Aboriginal women and girls have gone missing over the past 30 to 40 years, while others say it's more like 1,100.

Stephanie English was devastated in June when news of her daughter's death shook her family. The body of 25-year-old Joey English was discovered in a treed area in Calgary, but some of her body parts have still not been found. "My grandchildren are motherless. The justice system is failing us.

A week dedicated to reminding New Brunswickers of missing and murdered aboriginal women in the province concluded with a run on Saturday. "I was thinking about my grandmother," said Deanna Price of Duncan's First Nation. "Her life was taken way to short, and so I carry her with me and all the young women whose lives were taken tragically and too soon."

Last month, RCMP delivered an update on missing and murdered aboriginal women in Canada, a report that led many to put the onus for reform on aboriginal families and communities. "Our 2015 update confirms the unmistakable connection between homicide and family violence," said RCMP deputy-commissioner Janice Armstrong, speaking to the media after the report.

On the evening of October 4, around 500 people gathered at Place Emilie Gamelin for the eleventh memorial march for missing and murdered Indigenous women. The march was organized by the Centre for Gender Advocacy, and aims to honour the missing and murdered women and raise awareness.

Premier Wade MacLauchlan speaks with some of the people who attended the Sisters in Spirit Vigil in Charlottetown on Tuesday, held to honour the lives of murdered and missing aboriginal women in Canada. The premier told the crowd the province will be inviting the national inquiry to come to P.E.I.

Catherine Dickson and her daughter Lily, 11, stand outside the Trinity United Church in Summerside before starting their awareness walk for missing and murdered aboriginal women. It's a call for justice. And, it's a call for healing, said Catherine Dickson one of the leaders for the CGIT and explorers pilgrimage walk.

A Winnipeg photographer is using an old-fashioned technique from the 1800s to capture the pain, sorrow and strength of indigenous women today. The photos that line the walls of a Winnipeg shop look as though they could be more than a hundred years old, but small details give away the modern-day subjects.

An advocate for B.C.'s missing women is renewing his calls for Canada's national public inquiry to investigate the mysterious deaths and disappearances of Indigenous boys and men, as well as women. Ernie Crey pushed for the creation of a national inquiry for years, after his sister Dawn's DNA was found on the farm of serial killer Robert Pickton.

With the utmost respect to the loved ones of every murdered, missing Indigenous woman and girl, my hope is that this situation-the inquiry, the further requests for Inuit representation and Sen. Patterson's opinion piece-will bring to light the need to open up communication, so we can come together at the federal, territorial-provincial and community level to create safe spaces for meaningful dialogue around race, racism and racial equity.