Since 1999, November 25 has been the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women. It was started to commemorate the brutal 1960 assassination of three sisters in the Dominican Republic. To mark the day, MI is exploring a problem not readily acknowledged or discussed in Indigenous communities: senior abuse. While violence comes in […]
A potentially divisive debate is underway among women’s advocates after a provincial court recently struck down some of the laws restricting prostitution in Canada. And as the Toronto Star‘s Antonia Zerbisias writes, “even Aboriginal women’s groups have clashed, not only with mainstream feminist activists but also with each other.” On Sept. 28, 2010, in the […]
The folks over at ‘Crazy Bitches R Us’ are taking the view that, despite Sharon McIvor and others’ criticisms of it, Bill C-3 (a bill essentially proposing changes to the Indian Act that would remove some, but not all, of the sexist impediments to passing Indian Status on to one’s children) is better than the […]
The Native Women’s Association of Canada has released an open letter to MPs from Sharon McIvor opposing Bill C-3 (aka, the “Gender Equity in Indian Registration Act”): According to the Honourable Chuck Strahl, Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development, Bill C-3 will make about 45,000 people newly eligible for registration as Indians. But Bill […]
In the second of a series, we have an update for you concerning our map of missing and murdered Aboriginal women across Canada, which has now reached the 50-name mark. In our initial post, we featured a woman’s story for every province or territory. Now, with the addition of 37 more names, the map includes […]
