July 2016 Pauktuutit Inuit Women of Canada has asked the federal government to appoint a sixth, Inuk commissioner to oversee the upcoming national inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls.

JULY 2016 Details of a long-awaited national inquiry into missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls are expected to be released Wednesday, sources tell CBC News. Indigenous Affairs Minister Carolyn Bennett said last week that an announcement was "very close." Sources who spoke to CBC News on condition of anonymity said they have been told the announcement will come Aug.

JUNE 2016 Nearly four decades have gone by and Vicki Hill is still looking for answers to questions about her mother's death. On Tuesday, that may start to change. According to Hill, Staff Sgt. Wayne Cleary of Project E-PANA - a task force that investigates disappearances and deaths of women with connections to three highways in northern B.C.

JUNE 2016 Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was the one who promised a national inquiry into missing and murdered Indigenous women, but the provinces still need to sign off on the details.

JUNE 2016 Even in retirement, there are police findings former constable Dave Dickson struggles to accept. The Vancouver Police Department's assessment that Ashley Machiskinic did not die in suspicious circumstances is one of them. On Sept. 15, 2010, Machiskinic fell to her death from the fifth floor of the Regent Hotel in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside.

JUNE 2016 Indigenous leaders and advocates say dozens of cases where police determined there was no evidence of foul play must be included in a federal inquiry into missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls. They were responding to a CBC News investigation that uncovered 34 cases in which families disagreed with official findings that their loved ones' deaths or disappearances were not suspicious.

JULY 2016 Sabrina Polchies, a Mi'kmaq woman from the Elsipogtog First Nation, moved to Moncton on Canada Day in 2010 to start a new life, but four days later she was found dead in a Salisbury apartment. The RCMP ruled out foul play in her death six years ago, but members of her family believe Polchies was murdered.

JULY 2016 A leading advocate for the welfare of First Nations children and families says she'll have little faith in the upcoming inquiry on murdered and missing Indigenous women unless a funding gap is closed first.

JULY 2016 Policing will require close examination during the inquiry into murdered and missing Indigenous women, Indigenous Affairs Minister Carolyn Bennett said Thursday after questions were raised about a draft copy of the terms of reference.

JULY 2016 A draft of the terms of reference for the upcoming inquiry into missing and murdered Indigenous women reveals that a through review of police conduct isn't part of the agenda. This is a shame given that every pre-inquiry consultation the government did with 18 different Indigenous communities included a plea to review police conduct.

JULY 2016 After launching an investigation last year, CBC News continues to follow up on unsolved cases of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls from across the country. As of today, CBC has added 55 cases to our database, 285 individual cases in total.

JULY 2016 She was a young, beautiful Indigenous woman with three children she loved dearly. She came from the Piikani Nation, a Blackfoot Confederacy community in southern Alberta. "She was always loving, laughing," her mother, Stephanie English, says from her Calgary home. "Joey was a really gentle girl, really caring.