special report
8 Obiter Dicta
Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women:
Would a National Inquiry Help?
O
erin garbett › staff writer
n August 17, the body of fifteen-year-old Anishinaabe
girl Tina Fontaine was
pulled from the Red River
in Winnipeg after she had been missing for over a week. Her disappearance
and subsequent murder incurred public
outrage and further called for a national
inquiry of murdered and missing indigenous women in Canada. Following
Fontaine’s murder, a motion was passed
by the Winnipeg city council to endorse
an inquiry or roundtable discussion. The
city council’s voice is not the only one