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Read the commissioners 10 recommendations in the interim report
APTN News The following are the 10 recommendations from the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls. The interim report was released Wednesday in Ottawa. 1....
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Families to help design MMIWG national police task force to reopen cold cases
APTN News Families of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls will have a say on designing a national police task force, something the national inquiry called on the Trudeau government to...
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Lisa Bigjohn ready to tell her sister’s story again
Chris Stewart APTN News Sunday It’s been 17 years since Lisa Bigjohn lost her sister – and she’s getting to tell her story — again, this time to the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered...
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Unofficial numbers could hike MMIWG total
Paul Barnsley APTN News Two riveting stories gripped the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Women and Girls Wednesday about the numbers of victims not officially considered missing or...
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Inquiry faces criticism from families about care
Paul Barnsley APTN News The executive director of the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls says there have been some serious failings in the way families have been...
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Littlechild tells inquiry that violence against women and girls getting...
Paul Barnsley APTN News Wilton Littlechild, the grand chief of Treaty 6 territory, on which the Edmonton hearings of the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Women and Girls took place, made a...
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2 Yukon staff members resign from MMIWG inquiry
Shirley McLean APTN News Two Yukon staff members for the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls have resigned. Lawyer Karen Snowshoe told APTN News of her resignation in...
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Inquiry fires 3 people in wake of Edmonton complaints
APTN News Three people have been fired after families complained of mistreatment by the MMIWG Inquiry, APTN News has learned. Two front-line staffers for the Yukon and one in Winnipeg were dumped,...
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No furniture, no after care at inquiry former employee says
(What appears to be an empty office of the national MMIWG inquiry in Winnipeg. Photo: Kathleen Martens/APTN) Kathleen Martens APTN News A former manager at the National Inquiry for Missing and...
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Families hire lawyer to help them navigate national inquiry
Kathleen Martens APTN News Some families have hired a lawyer to help them navigate the bureaucracy within the National Inquiry for Missing and Murdered Aboriginal Women and Girls. Suzan Fraser is a...
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Resignations, firings and testimony at the Saskatoon MMIWG hearings
Kathleen Martens Shirley McLean APTN News With 11 words, another lawyer quit the beleaguered National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls as it rolled into Saskatoon. “I...
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Commissioners say families still have faith in inquiry
Kathleen Martens Shirley McLean APTN News The public may be losing confidence in the national inquiry but commissioners say the families aren’t. “Absolutely not. It’s anything but,” said chief...
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Decades old MMIWG cases not being researched by Inquiry — legal counsel
Martha Troian APTN Investigates The National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls could be doing more to research cases that stretch back decades. As the majority of the...
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Families say MMIWG inquiry cancels Rankin Inlet hearings
Kathleen Martens APTN News Witnesses scheduled to testify in Rankin Inlet say they’ve been contacted by the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls informing them that...
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Liberals accused of blocking committee from calling PCO to testify about...
Nation to Nation Federal opposition MPs say Liberal members on the Indigenous Affairs committee are blocking them from calling staff from the Privy Council Office (PCO) to testify on how it is...
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Families want to see changes to the justice system inquiry hears
Shirley McLean APTN News Over the last three days in Saskatoon, family members like Sheila Ladoux spoke in public and in private about what happened to her loved ones – and why changes to the justice...
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UPDATE: MMIWG Inquiry keeps Rankin Inlet hearings
Kathleen Martens APTN News The head of the National Inquiry into Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women confirmed Thursday the Rankin Inlet hearings will remain in the community but will be put over...
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Maliotenam inquiry hears about stolen children, and police rape
Pierre Paul Niquay, left, Viviane Echaquan Armand Echaquan family of Lorianna Echaquan at the inquiry Monday. Photo: Tom Fennario/APTN) Tom Fennario APTN News Lorianna Echaquan was two and a half...
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Pauktuutit confused over postponement of Rankin hearings
(Graffiti in the bathroom of the Rankin Inlet community centre.) Kathleen Martens APTN News Offensive graffiti is being blamed, in part, for postponing the Rankin Inlet stop of the National Inquiry...
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Missing mother and murder at the Maliotenam hearings
(Anne Marie Jourdain, Innu woman missing since 1957. Photo courtesy of the National Inquiry) Tom Fennario Danielle Rochette APTN News During her testimony at the National Inquiry into Missing and...
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