Highway of Tears Media Thread *No Discussion*

[tarabull]

B.C. government accused of deliberately destroying Highway of Tears internal records
May 28, 2015

B.C.'s privacy commissioner says she's launched an investigation after government accused of widespread and systemic abuse of the Freedom of Information law

Read more: http://www.vancouversun.com/news/go...nal+records/11090247/story.html#ixzz3bThmKVBh

 

[Patience]

Women are still going missing': Despite assurances, no progress on B.C.’s infamous Highw

http://news.nationalpost.com/news/c...o-progress-on-b-c-s-infamous-highway-of-tears
VANCOUVER — A year and a half after a public inquiry called for urgent action to protect women along a stretch of highway in northern British Columbia known as the Highway of Tears, mayors and other leaders in the region say the province has yet to contact them about what needs to happen.
Internal briefing notes also indicate a team of bureaucrats assigned to hold consultations with communities along Highway 16, where women have been disappearing or turning up dead for decades, have put that work on hold for much of the past year.
What emerges is a picture of slow progress that appears to contradict the province’s claims that it has been busy holding a “tremendous number” of meetings about the issue with local governments.

 

[Patience]

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/briti...al&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer
Set in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside and along the Highway of Tears, a new opera is in the works that will tell the tragic story of Canada's missing and murdered indigenous women.
Written as a chamber piece, Missing Women, will incorporate Aboriginal themes and music.
First Nations filmmaker, playwright and performance artist Marie Clements will be the librettist for the opera. Clements was approached by City Opera for the project.
She says she is privileged to tell the stories of Canada's missing and murdered women, a tragedy that weighs heavily in B.C. where there are at least 65 unsolved cases dating back to 1951.
"To bear witness to that in my time is something that lives in me," she said. Clement hopes the opera will allow audiences to immerse themselves in their stories.

 

[Sillybilly]

RCMP alerted after B.C. staffer allegedly deleted Highway of Tears emails ...

VICTORIA -- B.C.'s privacy commissioner has alerted RCMP after releasing a scathing report identifying major failures in the access to information practices of Premier Christy Clark's office and two ministries.

Elizabeth Denham found it's likely that Transport Ministry assistant George Gretes deleted emails, didn't completely respond to freedom of information requests and then lied about it under oath ...

full article at:
http://bc.ctvnews.ca/rcmp-alerted-a...dly-deleted-highway-of-tears-emails-1.2622905

 

[Sillybilly]

Highway of Tears gets $3-million safety plan from BC government ...

The five-point plan includes $1.6-million for transit expansion, $750,000 for community transportation grant programs, $150,000 for a First Nations driver education program, $500,000 for highway safety measures including shelters and webcams and “collaboration to increase interconnectivity of services.” ...

full article at:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news...afety-along-highway-of-tears/article27748817/

 

[shadowraiths]

New numbers are more than three times higher than the force's initial counts.

The number of indigenous women who have disappeared or been killed in Canada may be much larger than previously estimated, officials said this week.

Research from the Native Women’s Association of Canada documented about 3,000 more cases than the Royal Canadian Mounted Police reported in 2014, Indigenous Affairs Minister Carolyn Bennett said on Monday.

Vancouver-based initiative Walk4Justice compiled a list -- which the NWAC acquired -- of 4,232 indigenous women who have been killed or have gone missing since the 1980s. This figure stands in stark contrast to the RCMP's initial count of 1,181.

"The gulf between 1,200 and pushing 4,000 is huge," NWAC President Dawn Lavell-Harvard told CBC News. She also stressed the importance of instituting a formal database for information about the cases.​

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[0101ABA]

Mystery of missing, murdered women along "Highway of Tears"

Paul LaRosa is a "48 Hours" producer. He investigated the cases of missing and murdered women along a Canadian Highway for the episode, "Highway of Tears." The episode airs Saturday on CBS as part of a double feature, starting at 9 p.m. ET/PT.

The Highway of Tears sounds like something out of a Stephen King thriller -- a long stretch of road in an isolated, beautiful Canadian countryside where at least 18 and possibly many more girls and women have been murdered or gone missing since 1969.

"It`s a place that can be a good friend to evil," said Bob Friel, an investigative journalist who has traveled this notorious road in British Columbia, Canada. "48 Hours" will feature the highway on Saturday's 9 p.m. broadcast.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/mystery-of-missing-murdered-women-along-highway-of-tears/

 

[Sillybilly]

B.C. report finds indigenous girls in care more likely to face sex abuse

Kathryn Blaze Baum, Mark Hume And Gloria Galloway
TORONTO and VANCOUVER and OTTAWA — The Globe and Mail
Published Tuesday, Oct. 04, 2016 12:00PM EDT
Last updated Tuesday, Oct. 04, 2016 9:12PM EDT

Indigenous girls in the B.C. child-welfare system are as much as four times more likely to be victims of sexual violence than non-indigenous girls, according to a watchdog report that describes a failing, ad hoc approach to preventing and responding to the sexual victimization of children in care.

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[0101ABA]

Families walk Highway of Tears to honour missing, murdered Indigenous women

The annual journey, made by Radek and others who have lost loved ones, will span five days this year and cover 350 kilometres between Prince Rupert and Smithers. Vehicles will accompany the walkers who will cover sections of the route in a relay fashion.

Commissioners of the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls are set to join the walk on Sept. 25 before community hearings are held from Sept. 26 to 28 in Smithers. This is the second set of hearings held to date by the inquiry, after it visited Whitehorse in May.

 

[Patience]

"MMIWG victims of 'Canadian genocide,' says report"

 

[Patience]

Final Report | MMIWG
Final Report | MMIWG

 

[dotr]

WATCH LIVE.
WATCH LIVE: National MMIWG Inquiry Commissioners speak to media
"Commissioners and subject matter experts speak about the Final Report presented by the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls.
Jun 03, 2019, 1:27 PM"

 

[CuriousCookie]

Authorities behind Highway 16 crimes, ex-officer says

'"It’s unbelievable the number of people who are murdered and missing. And the best authorities – they say – couldn’t solve them. It’s quite possible that somebody could’ve been the wrong person for that job and he slipped through the cracks. I don’t think full investigations were given for native people as they would have been for other people. Somebody has to step up and stop letting them sweep it under the carpet.”'

 

[BlueJayBirdie]

Finding Closure, Fifty Years after a Murder | The Walrus

"Levina Moody was one of the first known Indigenous women to be killed along BC’s highways. Her murder remains unsolved—but her family hasn’t given up"


by Angela Sterritt Updated 9:44, Jul. 10, 2023 | Published 6:30, Jul. 10, 2023

 

[BlueJayBirdie]

New billboards for missing and murdered women aim to change narrative of B.C.'s 'Highway of Tears'​

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/new-mmiwg-billboards-1.6937402

"We really want to switch the message and the narrative that has been going on about this place of despair and loss and pain. We want to acknowledge that this is our home. This is beautiful territory, and that we all deserve to be safe and protected," said Julie Daum, executive director of justice at Carrier Sekani Family Services, which partnered with families to create the billboard.