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CHRY's Candace Mooers spoke with documentary filmmaker Jessica Yee (in Kensington Market) in Toronto about her video project, titled "Building a Highway of Hope." Jessica Yee's film highlights ways that youth are acting to stop violence against indigenous women, children and men along the Highway of Tears (Yellowhead Trail 16) in British Columbia.
Recorded for "News Now" on CHRY 105.5 FM in Toronto, statistical information from dominionpaper.ca
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INTRO SCRIPT:
Indigenous women in Canada are five times more likely than other women to die as a result of violence. The official number of missing and murdered indigenous women and girls in Canada since 1980 is 520. Of 520 women and girls, approximately two thirds were murdered, and about one-quarter are still missing. Indigenous grassroots activists and communities put the number of cases closer to 1800. The Native Women's Association of Canada points out that even working with the official number, 520, taken proportionately, that would equal about 18,000 murdered and missing women among Canada's white population. What is being done to stop the violence?
CHRY's Candace Mooers spoke with documentary filmmaker Jessica Yee (in Kensington Market) in Toronto about her video project, titled "Building a Highway of Hope." Jessica Yee's film highlights ways that youth are acting to stop violence against indigenous women, children and men along the Highway of Tears (Yellowhead Trail 16) in British Columbia.
EXTRO SCRIPT (OR WRITE YOUR OWN):
Jessica Yee's documentary "Building a Highway of Hope" screened in many cities across Turtle Island since its release in 2009. For more information about "Building a Highway of Hope", please contact the Native Youth Sexual Health Network in Toronto.
