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Mar 2025
42m 55s

The Highway of Tears (And Maybe Hope)

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Indigenous women in Canada have always been vulnerable, but there’s a stretch of remote road that’s such a hotspot for disappearances, assaults, and murders of women that it’s been called the Highway of Tears. And not much has been done to change that.

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