Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women Archives

Indigenous support workers hired to help families involved with inquiry into missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls

September 7, 2017 Maureen Googoo

Families in Nova Scotia who plan on participating in the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls will now have a specialized support team to help them through the process. Three Indigenous […]

National inquiry into murdered, missing Indigenous women and girls hold community meetings in NS this week

August 16, 2017 Maureen Googoo

Debra Ginnish, who’s niece was killed in 2004, has a list of questions to ask staff with the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls when they arrive in Membertou First Nation […]

Kukukwes.com – The Podcast: Episode 10

May 15, 2017 Maureen Googoo

Kukukwes.com – The Podcast: Episode 10 Recorded on April 15, 2017 Host: Maureen Googoo Other ways to listen to Kukukwes.com – The Podcast: iTunes Google Play Tunein Radio RSS Podcast includes: 1. An update on […]

Kukukwes.com – The Podcast: Episode 9

May 15, 2017 Maureen Googoo

Kukukwes.com – The Podcast: Episode 9 Recorded on April 9, 2017 Host: Maureen Googoo Other ways to listen to Kukukwes.com – The Podcast: iTunes Google Play Tunein Radio RSS Podcast includes: 1. Reporter Samantha Calio’s […]

Kukukwes.com – The Podcast: Episode 8

May 15, 2017 Maureen Googoo

Kukukwes.com – The Podcast: Episode 8 Recorded on February 20, 2017 Host: Maureen Googoo Other ways to listen to Kukukwes.com – The Podcast: iTunes Google Play Tunein Radio RSS Podcast includes: 1. Interview with Alex […]

Kukukwes.com – The Podcast: Episode 7

May 13, 2017 Maureen Googoo

Kukukwes.com – The Podcast: Episode 7 Recorded on December 4, 2016 Host: Maureen Googoo Other ways to listen to Kukukwes.com – The Podcast: iTunes Google Play Tunein Radio RSS Podcast includes: 1. Interview with Sipekne’katik […]

Kukukwes.com – The Podcast: Episode 4

May 13, 2017 Maureen Googoo

Kukukwes.com – The Podcast: Episode 4 Recorded on October 24, 2016 Host: Maureen Googoo Other ways to listen to Kukukwes.com – The Podcast: iTunes Google Play Tunein Radio RSS Podcast includes: 1. A feature length interview […]

Loretta Saunders’ killer loses appeal of murder conviction

April 14, 2017 Maureen Googoo

Applause and cheers quickly turned into profane shouts in a Halifax courtroom Thursday after an appeal court panel dismissed Victoria Henneberry’s request to have her second-degree murder conviction overturned. One person yelled, “Go to hell” […]

Live Blog: Day 2 of Victoria Henneberry appeal hearing

April 13, 2017 Maureen Googoo

Victoria Henneberry, one of two people serving life sentences for the Feb. 2014 murder of Loretta Saunders, is appealing her second-degree murder conviction. Henneberry, who is representing herself in court, is asking a panel of […]

Henneberry to give final arguments to have murder conviction overturned

April 13, 2017 Samantha Calio

One of two people serving life sentences for killing an Inuk woman from Labrador over rent money in 2014 will present her final arguments to the Nova Scotia Court of Appeal in Halifax Thursday on […]

Live Blog: Day 1 of Victoria Henneberry appeal hearing

April 12, 2017 Samantha Calio

One of two people convicted of killing Inuk woman Loretta Saunders in Feb. 2014 is appealing her second-degree murder conviction. In April 2015, Victoria Henneberry and her then boyfriend, Blake Leggette, pleaded guilty killing the […]

Loretta Saunders’ sister upset with killer appealing conviction

April 11, 2017 Samantha Calio

The sister of slain Inuk woman Loretta Saunders is upset that one of the killers is going ahead with appealing her murder conviction. “It’s a slap in the face,” Delilah Saunders said in a phone interview about Victoria […]

Family members of missing, murdered women contribute moccasin vamps to art exhibit at MSVU

January 16, 2017 Maureen Googoo

Agnes Gould said she was overwhelmed with emotion when she spoke about her missing sister, Virginia Sue Pictou-Noyes, during a ceremony prior to the opening of an art exhibition to commemorate missing and murdered Indigenous […]

MMIW Series: Virginia Sue Pictou-Noyes

December 16, 2016 Rob Csernyik

Agnes Gould, known as Aggie Baby, has been looking for her sister for over 23 years, but her search knows no borders. Though Virginia Sue Pictou-Noyes went missing from a Maine hospital, she was still […]

MMIW Series: Nora Bernard

December 15, 2016 John Sandham

Sitting in her home in Millbrook First Nation near Truro, N.S., Natalie Gloade looks at a picture of her mother hanging on her wall. “It’s like she’s looking at me, smiling,” Gloade says. “I know […]