Jane Gerster
How Violence Continues to Plague the Family of One Murdered Ontario Aboriginal Woman
Charity Keesic was beaten to death by the 16-year-old son of a family friend. Now her mother is trying to break the cycle of male violence within her community.
Inside Grande Prairie: Horror and Hope in Canada’s Violent Crime Capital
Grande Prairie, Alberta is one of the most dangerous places to live in Canada, especially for Indigenous women. This is how the community is responding to one woman's murder.
Inside One Family’s Bureaucratic Struggle to Find Out if Their Missing Daughter Is Still Alive
Canadian regulations around government records for Status Indians makes it impossible for even investigators to access basic clues to her whereabouts.
How Canadian Authorities Screwed Up After Jailing Serial Killer Robert Pickton
Eighteen years after Stephanie Lane's disappearance, and 13 years after her remains were found on Pickton's farm, her family's trauma is still not over.
Inside the Course Canadian Officers Are Taking to Improve Their Relationship with First Nations
But can a two-day course really improve decades of abuse and mistrust?
Indigenous People Debate Whether Voting in the Canadian Election Undermines First Nations' Sovereignty
There are reasons for not voting that go back centuries, long before "Anybody but Harper" existed.
How the Canadian Authorities Have Impeded Reporting on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women
While reporting on Canada's epidemic of missing Indigenous women, I've learned that Canadian government institutions don't want this story told.
Denise Bourdeau Kept Returning to Her Abusive Partner; One Day, He Killed Her
Though her killer is behind bars, for her mother there is no justice in how her case was handled.
She Was 16 When She Went Missing, But the RCMP Didn’t Tell Anyone for Three Years
Why didn't the public know Krystle Knott was missing and would it have helped save her?
All Her Life Chantelle Bushie Found Ways to Disappear Until One Day She Never Came Back
She was sexually abused. She lost a younger sister to a tragic accident. Did the system ever give her a chance?
Will an Inquiry into the Deaths of Canadian Aboriginal Women Bring Peace to Their Families?
Mag Cywink, who has spent over two decades searching for justice in her sister's murder, fears a national inquiry will hurt those who it is trying to help the most.
How 'Indian Status' Figures into the Unsolved Case of a Murdered Canadian Aboriginal Woman
Sonya Cywink died without an aboriginal name or official Indian status. But her story is very much a part of the 1,200 murdered and missing aboriginal women in Canada.