By Maryanna Gabriel
I am proud to say red dresses are flying here on Salt Spring Island, a symbol of an indifferent society, giving voice to a gender and race that has been voiceless. In Canada, thousands of First Nations Women have disappeared.
In British Columbia there is a highway east of Chetwynd, and south of William's Lake, where wild rivers and snow capped mountains overlook a road that is particularly bad, nicknamed The Highway Of Tears. Author Jessica McDiarmid has documented the stories in her recent book, raising the alarm there is an "elephant in our national living room". No longer possible to ignore how little is being done to stop the murders, these red dresses deserve redress.