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Native Women’s Association of Canada slams feds after non-Indigenous man appointed to lead MMIWG Secretariat

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Lynne Groulx, CEO of the Native Women’s Association of Canada, told Crown-Indigenous Relations Carolyn Bennett that she wasn't happy with the recent appointment of Bruno Steinke as interim executive director of the MMIWG Secretariat. Photograph courtesy of Twitter

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BY Zainab Al-Mehdar

September 6, 2021

The Native Women’s Association of Canada (NWAC) said colonialism is "alive and well" in a pointed letter to Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister Carolyn Bennett over the interim appointment of Bruno Steinke, a non-Indigenous man, as the executive director of the Missing and Murdere...

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