Forty days ago, a woman returned to her home on Nova Scotia’s We’koqma’q First Nation to find her 22-year-old daughter, Cassidy Bernard – a new mother of infant twins – dead.
“Her daughter was murdered,” said Paula Marshall, executive director of the Mi’kmaq Legal Support Network.
“Her five-and-a-half month old identical twin girls lay dehydrated in a crib beside her, very seriously ill.” Continue reading “Canadian federal government introduces $50-million fund for survivors of gender-based violence”