Finding Dawn
Powerful emotive film of on an epic journey to shed light on the murders and disappearances of Aboriginal women in Canada...
View ArticlePolygamy in Canada
November 2010: Debate rages in a Canadian Supreme Court as it decides whether the country's 60 year old anti-polygamy law should be repealed...
View ArticleGhosts of Violence: Ballet as a Catalyst for Change
Ghosts of Violence is a powerful ballet on the subject of violence against women, which had its world premiere recently in Ottawa, Canada...
View ArticleAlberta Billy and the Apology to Canada's Aboriginal Peoples
Much has been made of the historic 2008 apology from Prime Minister Stephen Harper to aboriginal peoples about the residential schools system...
View ArticleAboriginal Actress Tantoo Cardinal Arrested at Oil Pipeline Protest
August 2011: Actress Tantoo Cardinal joined a sit-in to protest the Keystone XL pipeline and was arrested for violating a permit...
View ArticleFamilies of missing Canadian women take to the streets
Oct 2011: As a troubled Canadian government inquiry into missing and murdered Indigenous women entered its second week, family members of the disappeared took to the streets with a drum group...
View ArticleYoung Canadian Students Report on Safe World for Women
"Safeworld makes it possible to imagine a world in the future that has abolished violations of women’s rights. This organization deserves the attention and funding of people everywhere..."
View ArticleYoung People's Views - Why a Safe World for Women?
Canadian Students won a school competition by creating awebsite to raise awareness about Safe World for Women. We asked what attracted them to Safe World for Women, and what impact it has had on...
View ArticleCanada: 89 year old woman peace activist faces jail
Oct 2013: Audrey Tobias defiant as she awaits the verdict in her trial over refusing to fill out the census because it's processed with software from a U.S. military contractor...
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