Former MMIW commissioner explains her resignation

The National Inquiry into Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women and Girls is missing a crucial opportunity to take a meaningful new approach to its interactions with First Peoples, says former commissioner Marilyn Poitras.
After decades of struggle to draw attention to the epidemic of violence against their women, indigenous families and communities are being treated as simply the subject of study by the federal commission tasked with investigating the root causes, instead of being addressed as