Montreal Gazette (blog) - Remembering lost, murdered aboriginal women

It took a monster named  Robert Pickton and the horrors police unearthed on a British Columbia pig farm before most Canadians really woke up to a story which has long haunted aboriginal communities. Women disappear, nobody knows, nobody seems to care.

Over the last 30 years, depending on whose statistics you read, anywhere from 580 to 3,000 First Nations, Metis and Inuit women have either vanished or been murdered in Canada. Often they flee abuse or difficult circumstances in their own community, or set off with bright hopes of adventure in the city -- only to disappear.

Over the next 13 days, members of the Aboriginal Law Association at McGill will be joining ranks with Indigenous law student groups across the country to honour the dead and prod law enforcement authorities to work harder to track down the missing.