Artist Is Making Canadians Pay Attention to Missing & Murdered Women — One Tweet at a Time -PLEASE SHARE! Every day since Jan. 5, the Toronto-based illustrator has been drawing a portrait of the more than 1,100 indigenous women whove gone missing or been murdered in Canada since 1980, then tweeting it at Stephen Harper. Munday said he plans to keep going until he runs out of names — or the government takes action to address the problem. To me, this is one of the most important issues facing Canada, he told Mic. If he tweets every day, the project could go on for more than three years. In a televised interview on Dec. 16, CBCs Peter Mansbridge asked Harper about his management of the crisis, which has drawn international attention lately due to the efforts of indigenous activists. Youve rejected [calls for an official inquiry] ... in the past, Manbridge said. Yeah, said Harper. [It] isnt really high on our radar, to be honest. Its a troubling dismissal, considering the stakes: According to a 2013 report from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, indigenous women accounted for 16% of female homicide victims between 1980 and 2012, while making up just 4.3% of the countrys female population. Its a staggering disparity, compounded by the fact that homicide rates for these women have remained steady for the past 30 years, while non-aboriginal rates have gone down. Munday, like many Canadians, has had enough. His portrait project first took shape on Dec. 6, when Canada recognizes an annual National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women. On that day in 1989, gunman Marc Lepine entered an engineering classroom at Montreals Ecole Polytechnique and murdered 14 women, screaming Jhais les fémenistes [I hate feminists] as he fired his weapon. mic/articles/108044/artist-is-making-canada-pay-attention-to-murdered-indigenous-women-one-tweet-at-a-time -D
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