Indigenous Inquiry [into murdered and missing Indigenous women and girls] a Slow Motion Implosion

*(Originally published in the Lawyer’s Daily on August 8, 2017- edited) When the draft terms of reference of the National Inquiry into Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women and Girls were leaked to the media in the summer of 2016, many families, advocates, experts and communities were upset that there would be no investigation of the…

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Inquiry into Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women and Girls Fatally Flawed

(Originally published in Lawyer’s Daily on May 15, 2017) It looks like those who advocated for the long-awaited national inquiry into murdered and missing indigenous women and girls will be waiting a little while longer. Despite the promise from Liberal Prime Minister Justin Trudeau that the national inquiry would be his first order of business,…

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