Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women & Girls

Mitch Bourbonniere began 2016 helping hundreds of Winnipeggers look for Cooper Nemeth, a search that ended when the slain 17-year-old's body was found. Bourbonniere wrapped up the year helping Winnipeggers conduct a search for another missing teen, which ended when he rescued her from the river.

Waterloo Region Record KITCHENER - There's not a day that goes by that Amy Miller doesn't think about her daughter, Denise Bourdeau. But there are certain dates, certain times of year, that are harder than others. New Year's Day, the day the 39-year-old mother of three went missing 10 years ago.

Sheila North Wilson began 2016 with hope Canadians would better understand the tragic scope of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls. One year later, they're beginning to get the picture, she said. Now it's time to raise awareness about the people who target them.

Three months after the inquiry into missing and murdered Indigenous women officially began, advocates worry that families have been "left in the dark" about when they might be expected to testify and are feeling disengaged from the process that is supposed to give them a voice.

I remember sitting in my office at home, staring out my window while conducting my first interview for CBC's missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls project. I was four days into the work. I talked to Nancy Masuskapoe, the older sister of Bernadette Ahenakew.

For the first time under Chief Clive Weighill's tenure, crime in Saskatoon is going up. This city has the highest murder rate in the country and thefts and break-ins are spiking. The StarPhoenix sat down with the city's police chief to talk crime and what's next for 2017.

The year 2016 saw local First Nations bands raising several issues and continuing to fight for their rights on numerous fronts. It's a fight that shows no sign of ending but this year in the Central Okanagan there were several events that raised the public profile.

OTTAWA - Much more needs to be done to confront the crime of sexual abuse of children in indigenous communities, says Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who anticipates the national inquiry into missing and murdered indigenous women and girls will reveal "huge issues" that must be addressed.

It's been another stellar year for Indigenous literature. ​CBC's Duncan McCue published The Shoe Boy, his memoir of a season spent hunting on a northern Quebec trapline as a teenager. While Rosanna Deerchild, host of CBC's Unreserved, released Calling Down the Sky - a collection of poetry that delves into her mother's story at a residential school.

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OTTAWA - Much more needs to be done to confront the crime of sexual abuse of children in indigenous communities, says Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who anticipates the national inquiry into missing and murdered indigenous women and girls will reveal "huge issues" that must be addressed.

Amanda Rheaume is a quiet crusader. The Canadian singer-songwriter, who appears in the Traverse Theatre's latest Monday music programme, has a history of speaking out for good causes in songs that use gentle persuasion and catchy melodies rather than a loud hailer to get her message across, and her method has produced results.

A St. Catharines man is spending 30 days living in a park to guard a sacred fire burning in honour of missing and murdered Aboriginal women. Fred Bowering has already spent 12 days camping in front of the sacred fire. The Mohawk man is guarding the fire for his cousin Ashley Simpson who was last seen in B.C.

For almost 40 years, Fay Blaney has worked tirelessly to bring to light the disproportionate level of violence faced by indigenous women in Canada. In the year since the federal government launched an inquiry into missing and murdered indigenous women, she has been busy working to focus the commissioners' agenda on the root of the cause.

Quebec is launching a wide-reaching public inquiry into "systemic" discrimination facing indigenous peoples in the fallout from accusations of police mistreatment of native women in the northern community of Val-d'Or. The made-in-Quebec probe marks an about-face by Premier Philippe Couillard, who had insisted he didn't want to duplicate the work of the federal government's national inquiry into missing and murdered indigenous women.

"When was the last time you spoke with your daughter?" I asked. It was about 3 p.m. on a Thursday in late June and I was in a busy alley in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver with a CBC camera operator.

The national inquiry into missing and murdered indigenous women and girls has a new website, more than three months after its official launch date. The website's first iteration has a section where those interested can sign up to receive information bulletins about the inquiry via email.

Families of missing and murdered Indigenous women should sign up for MMIW inquiry emails while they wait to register to participate, inquiry commission officials say. The emails will provide updates ahead of the inquiry, which is expected to begin in spring. "We want to create a families first process," said Michael Hutchinson, the commission's director of communications.

EDMONTON- Edmonton police have charged a man with killing a woman whose body was found in a storage shed two years ago. Freda Goodrunning, who was 35 and from the Sunchild First Nation in west central Alberta, was discovered dead in Edmonton's west end on June 4, 2014.

"Close your eyes." Councillors and staff complied with the three-word instruction at Monday night's meeting. Tammy Meise told her audience she wanted to take them back to the fall day she and others brought the Red Dress Project to Prince George - a visual reminder of the many missing and murdered aboriginal women through the form of many red dresses.