Today, we’re talking about one of the hardest truths Canada keeps dodging: the crisis of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and 2SLGBTQQIA+ people.

For decades, families have been shouting into the void while police, courts, health systems, and governments looked away. This is the result of colonial policies, racism, broken institutions, and generations of trauma that Canada still hasn’t fully owned.

The National Inquiry called what’s happening a genocide. From ignored missing persons cases to lost evidence to children taken from hospitals and families left without answers, this is a systemic failure that cuts deep, especially in provinces like Quebec.

We’ll break down how we got here, why government promises keep falling short, and why Indigenous families and survivors are still leading the fight for justice, healing, and real change.

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