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Here’s our Weekly News Round up for September 29 to Oct 7th! We are using our blog and social media to amplify news that may have been missed due Bill C-18 in Canada.

This week, Oct 4th, marked the National Day of Action for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and Two-Spirit and gender diverse people. The violence experienced by MMIWG2S people in Canada is a national tragedy and crisis.

We live in a time when Indigenous ways of knowing and being are being recognized and celebrated more and more. We are also — as calls from Indigenous leaders in Winnipeg, Calgary and Vancouver attest  — living in a present where the family members of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and Two Spirited (MMIWG2S) peoples have to endure being cynically devalued  in their bid to get leaders & police to search for their loved ones.  How, in the wake of genocide, moving against an undertow of neglect and violence,  can we find ways to support one another to find justice, to heal, while centering truth and wisdom? 

Author Angela Sterritt has grappled with these questions for the past decade, and has poured her longing and her discovery into a masterful new book, Unbroken. We are so honoured to be presenting an evening with Sterritt on Tuesday, October 10th, 7pm at Artspring on Salt Spring Island. Get tickets here .

Ottawa Citizen: Ottawa vigil for missing and murdered Indigenous women cancelled over fears of conflict with convoy protest

Read more on this story from Ottawa Citizen here

National Post: Indigenous and non-Indigenous Canadians should be allies in demanding justice-system reform

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Gulf Island Driftwood: Journalist Angela Sterritt talks about Unbroken book

Read more on this story from Gulf Island Driftwood here

CBC: First Nation wants reasons for Trans Mountain ruling; says it’s entitled to appeal

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IndigiNews: Pressure builds on ‘B.C.’ to review mine expansion that syilx communities say threatens the Similkameen River

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Indiginews: Helen Knott transforms grief into hope in her new memoir, ‘Becoming a Matriarch’

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The Narwhal: What the NDP win in Manitoba means for the environment

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The Narwhal: What will it take to make traditional foods thrive again?

Read more on this story from The Narwhal here

CBC: ‘It was inspirational’: Wab Kinew’s message to Indigenous youth resonates with students

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