Dozens of people marched across downtown Vancouver on Friday in honour of missing and murdered Indigenous boys, men and two-spirit people across the country.
The second-annual march was held as a call for justice, with families saying their loved ones’ disappearances and deaths have not captured the public’s attention as they should have.
“When my son died, there was nobody. We felt all alone. Today, I feel so uplifted, seeing all these people, that our prayers are being answered,” said Eugenia Oudie, whose son, Charles, was found dead near the Pacific National Exhibition in Vancouver on Sept. 6, 2015.
The crowd gathered at Vancouver Police Department’s
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