‘The justice institution has failed us’: Killers of Indigenous women less likely to face murder charges 

Indigenous women and girls are killed at rates six times higher than non-Indigenous women — yet the perpetrators are frequently convicted of lesser offences than those guilty in the deaths of non-Indigenous victims.

In virtually all cases involving Indigenous women, the victim and accused knew each other.

The Investigative Journalism Bureau reviewed 1,329 cases in which women and girls were killed or died under suspicious circumstances in Canada between 2019 and 2025. Just over 25 per cent ...