Advocates urge stable, long-term funding to ensure safety for Indigenous women | Unpublished
Hello!
Source Feed: The Globe and Mail
Publication Date: April 8, 2026 - 16:34

Stay informed

Advocates urge stable, long-term funding to ensure safety for Indigenous women

April 8, 2026
Advocates are calling for long-term, stable federal funding to safeguard Indigenous women and girls, warning the federal government's major projects push could place them at higher risk. Hilda Anderson-Pyrz, president of the National Family and Survivors Circle, says groups like hers still don't know if they'll receive continued funding from Ottawa, which undermines their ability address the crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls.


Unpublished Newswire

 
1 2 const title = "Weekly Quiz: Foreign Interference, Arctic Deterrence, and Weariness Around War"; const date = "April 18, 2026"; const data = [ { image: "https://walrus-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/img/Lennox-Alberta-1800-1-1536x1024.jpg", title: "Can Alberta Keep Foreign Meddling Out of Its Secession Vote?", url: "https://thewalrus.ca/can-alberta-keep-foreign-meddling-out-of-its-secession-vote/", question: "New federal legislation has introduced serious penalties for covert foreign interference in Canada’s democratic processes....
April 18, 2026 - 06:00 | Ketsia Beboua | Walrus
Well, let's hope the Sens can take us on as wild a ride as the Blue Jays did last year. Read More
April 18, 2026 - 05:00 | Doug Menary, Ottawa Citizen | Ottawa Sun
OTTAWA — Political parties, particularly those that are close enough to smell power, are quick to describe themselves as “big tents.” With the addition this week of Conservative MP Marilyn Gladu, the Liberal party’s new tent — to riff off a crack going around some Parliament Hill circles — is now big enough to drive a truckers’ convoy through. While Gladu was the fourth Conservative MP to cross the floor and join Mark Carney’s government in recent months, the Tory caucus wasn’t the Liberals’ only source of growth. Gladu’s defection came less than a month after the NDP’s Lori Idlout...
April 18, 2026 - 05:00 | Simon Tuck | National Post