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(Sean Kilpatrick/CP) Families of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls finally have somewhere to go with their questions, their concerns and their grief. On Wednesday, the federal government released the details of a national inquiry into...

A crowd gathers after a group of young indigenous people travelled from the James Bay Cree community of Whapmagoostui, Quebec, to Parliament Hill on March 25, 2013. (Photo: Fred Chartrand/Canadian Press) Canada is facing a critical moment in its history...

Freda Ens says she was a baby when her birth mother sold her for a bottle of beer. The buyer was an unrelated man she would later call “Grandfather.” Her earliest memories include being sexually molested by a number of men in his extended family. ...

By Kristy Kirkup and Sheryl Ubelacker, The Canadian Press Fred Kejick Thomas remembers the exact day — April 14, 2005 — when he confronted the uncle who had sexually molested him out on a trap line when he was four years old. After years of being haunted...

As Attawapiskat Chief Theresa Spence enters her fourth week of a hunger strike outside the Canadian parliament building, thousands of protesters voice their support in Los Angeles, London, Minneapolis, and New York City. Spence and the protesters of...