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Jessica McDiarmid is a Canadian journalist who has worked across North America and Africa, writing for publications such as the Toronto Star, the Associated Press, Maisonneuve, Canadian Business and the Harvard Review. Highway of Tears is her first book. She lives in British Columbia.
For decades, Indigenous women and girls have gone missing or been found murdered along an isolated stretch of highway in northwestern British Columbia. The highway is known as the Highway of Tears, and it has come to symbolize a national crisis.
Journalist Jessica McDiarmid meticulously investigates the devastating effect these tragedies have had on the families of the victims and their communities, and how systemic racism and indifference has created a climate where Indigenous women and girls are over-policed, yet under-protected. Through interviews with those closest to the victims–mothers and fathers, siblings and friends –McDiarmid provides an intimate, first-hand account of their loss and unflagging fight for justice. Examining the historically fraught social and cultural tensions between settlers and Indigenous peoples in the region, McDiarmid links these cases to others across Canada–now estimated to number up to 4,000–contextualizing them within a broader examination of the undervaluing of Indigenous lives in the country.
Highway of Tears is a piercing exploration of our ongoing failure to provide justice for missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls, and testament to their families and communities’ unwavering determination to find it.
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Episode 141 - Gerald van Scyoc (Part One)
Episode 140 - Haley Robinson
Episode 139 - Greg Petre and Graham Smith
Episode 138 - Susie deVille
Episode 137 - Kimberly Laberge and Cory Fitzsimmons
Episode 136 - Jeff Ostler
Episode 135 - Jonathan Blalock (with guest host Kinneret Ely)
Episode 134 - Calina Lawrence (with guest host Paige Pettibon)
Episode 133 - Sally Mars (with guest host Melissa Oliveri)
Episode 132 - Daryl Parson (with guest host Rachel Lally)
Episode 131 - Spoken Word with Geoff Finan and Greg Clifford
Episode 130 - Jakub Ferencik
Episode 129 - Steph Littlebird
Episode 128 - Ellen Adair
Episode 127 - Nancy Houser-Bluhm
Episode 126 - Matt Hall
Episode 125 - Eleanor Wells
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