Natan Obed, president of the national representational group Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami, said it's unacceptable that Inuit and Indigenous women and girls are still facing disproportionate rates of violence. Many people who are targeted find themselves in scenarios where they don't have the resources to be able to return home and lack social supports.
Every day on his way to work in 2016, Veldon Coburn drove past Bordeleau Park, by the edge of the Rideau River near downtown Ottawa.
Despite her success, Pootoogook struggled with homelessness while in Ottawa. Police investigated her death as suspicious, but no charges were ever laid. Police say Savanna Pikuyak moved to the city in early September and responded to an ad on Facebook to rent a room in a three-bedroom townhouse near Algonquin College, where she had just started studying. She was killed Sept. 14.Later in September, the remains of Mary Papatsie were found at a construction site in the city's Vanier neighbourhood. Her family had declared the 39-year-old missing in 2017.
Natan Obed, president of the national representational group Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami, said it's unacceptable that Inuit and Indigenous women and girls are still facing disproportionate rates of violence. But the road to better opportunities is also a pathway to potential violence. Obed said many people who are targeted find themselves in scenarios where they don't have the resources to be able to return home and lack social supports in southern cities. Some face homelessness or addiction, and isolation from loved ones.
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