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The Highway of Tears (And Maybe Hope)

2025/3/20
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The Highway of Tears is a notorious stretch of remote highway in British Columbia, Canada, where numerous women, predominantly Indigenous, have disappeared or been murdered over the years.
  • The Highway of Tears runs from Prince Rupert to Prince George in British Columbia.
  • It is officially known as Highway 16 and spans about 720 kilometers.
  • This area has a high incidence of missing and murdered Indigenous women.
  • The issue has caught national attention, but resources and support remain inadequate.

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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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