Sex workers call for hate crime law, end to violence
Sex workers and supporters lit candles on the steps of a police detachment as part of a global day of action.
My extensive reporting on missing and murdered women has been recognized by the Canadian Journalism Foundation and the Canadian Association of Journalists with awards and nominations.
From in-depth regular coverage of the Missing Women Commission of Inquiry, to breaking news about international scrutiny, and exposés of cover-up allegations, my work has been published in THIS Magazine, Windspeaker, Indian Country Today Media Network, The Tyee, and Vancouver Observer.
Below are some samples from my missing and murdered women portfolio.
Sex workers and supporters lit candles on the steps of a police detachment as part of a global day of action.
Brushed off by the missing persons unit. Denied even her murdered daughter’s possession or photos. A mother speaks out at the Missing Women Inquiry today.
B.C.’s Missing Women’s Inquiry saw a pointed argument between the lawyer for families of Robert Pickton’s murder victims.
Deputy police chief Doug LePard – who authored an internal review into the botched Robert Pickton murder investigation – fended off suggestions of wider police department failures
It’s been 22 years since the Montreal massacre. We talk violence against women, and ways to end it, with a survival sex work organizer Jennifer Allan.
As a troubled inquiry into missing women entered its second week, family members of the disappeared took over a busy downtown intersection in opposition