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Dawn Foxcroft (left), Debra Foxcroft and Kelly Poirier stand for Lisa Marie Young and other Indigenous women who have gone missing or fallen victim to homicide on Sunday, May 2, by the Tseshaht band office in Port Alberni. On Sunday, which is Young's birthday, others were standing for her from…
It’s been nearly 10 years since Joanne Young’s daughter Lisa disappeared without a trace, and even though it’s still extremely painful to relive the memories, Joanne and her husband Don work hard to keep their daughter’s memory alive.
Joanne and her children are…
On June 26 dozens of people – most wearing orange shorts in recognition of residential school survivors and victims – progressed from the RCMP detachment to Maffeo Sutton Park at Nanaimo’s waterfront. The Indigenous dance group Butterflies in Spirit held a performance, followed by speakers…
Drivers travelling on the Island Highway through Nanoose Bay will now see the electronic billboard portraying both Angeline Pete and Lisa Marie Young, two missing and possibly murdered Indigenous women from Vancouver Island.
The billboards were put up with funds raised from the Lil’ Red Dress…
About a dozen Tla-o-qui-aht women and their supporters braved a fierce winter rain and wind storm to walk more than 20 km of the Tofino Highway in an attempt to bring attention to two missing women’s cases from their tribe, as well as the missing or murdered women’s cases across Canada.
The…
As colder and wetter weather arrives for the winter, Victoria’s emergency shelter providers are concerned about their ability to increase the number of beds available.
“Folks find themselves in situations that [at] the last minute they need somewhere to go to that’s safe,” said Leah Young,…
This summer the Quu’asa program added two new positions to improve how its mental health and cultural services reach young people in Port Alberni.
Amelie Duquette and Lisa Forryan began their roles as Quu’asa youth workers on July 23, part of the Nuu-chah-nulth Tribal Council’s Teechuktl…
The Port Alberni Friendship Centre hosted its second annual Sisters in Spirit Vigil on Oct. 4. The gathering was held in conjunction with hundreds of similar events across Canada to remember and honour aboriginal women who have been murdered or who have gone missing.
Organizer Janice Amos welcomed…
From November 2013 to January 2014, Port Alberni will once again be hosting a group of 18 Canada World Youth (CWY) volunteers from Vietnam and across Canada.
The volunteers’ three-month stay in the community will be the second stage of a CWY educational exchange program. The first half of the…
Since 1992, women have been gathering on Valentines Day in the Downtown Eastside for the women’s memorial walk in honor and remembrance of the missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls, and gender diverse peoples (MMIWG2S+).
According to the Native Women’s Association of Canada, British…
“I believe that proverb, “a people are not defeated until the hearts of its women are on the ground.” Let me tell you when we come together, regardless of any of the hurts we’ve been through, when we decide to fight for what is right, when we decide to fight for our loved ones, when we decide…
Several years after her aunt was found murdered on a logging road near Gold River, Lillian Howard encountered the late family member in a dream. Christina Beatrice (Howard) Thomas reassuringly held out her hand to Lillian.
“She said, ‘Hi Lil, I just came by to tell you how much I love you and…
Over a hundred walked through the pouring rain today in recognition of the many missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls, gathering near a spot where an Aboriginal woman died under suspicious circumstances just a month ago in Port Alberni.
Long considered a North American crisis that…
Dozens of red dresses hung over a gathering last week in Port Alberni, as families shared the stories of loved ones they lost to homicide. Silently swaying from the Italian Hall’s ceiling, the 23 vibrant garments hung above the event as a reminder of the lives that were taken away.
The Tseshaht…
We must start training our brains and our hearts to be kind—Lisa Watts.
For Indigenous Canadians, the social evil we now know as “lateral violence” is a direct consequence of the suppression of Indigenous culture and the imposition of a male-dominated, competition…