The Vanishing Men of Vancouver Island

submitted by rabber to canada 17 points | 2 comments https://www.dismantlethemedia.ca/p/the-vanishing-men-of-vancouver-island We are finally talking about this now eh? I lost a cousin over 12 years ago, vanished into thin air. Nobody cared. Especially the RCMP. Much like all these guys. A few posters and a lazy facebook post was all my beloved cousin ever got. My favourite part of the article is this: > National statistics reflect a severe and often overlooked reality regarding violence against Indigenous men: > Between 1980 and 2012, Statistics Canada documented 1,750 Indigenous male homicide victims, compared to 745 Indigenous female homicide victims. > In this timeframe, 71% of all murdered and missing Indigenous people were men and boys. > According to 2020 Statistics Canada data, Indigenous men are seven times more likely to die by homicide than non-Indigenous people, and four times more likely than Indigenous women. We hear so much about missing indigenous women. I had no idea the stat for men was 4 times higher. Why doesn’t anyone care? There is almost certainly an active serial killer operating on the mid island for years now, and I hear random people saying this more and more. Sadly we are on our own over here it seems.