May 5th is a day of awareness for MMIWG2S (missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls and Two Spirit). Statistics: - 16% of all cases occur in Alberta. - 70% disappear from an urban area. - 62% of disappearances are murder cases. - Out of 110 families surveyed, the average rating of police response was 2.8 out of 10. - Indigenous women and girls are more likely to be killed by a stranger than are non-lndigenous women. - Almost 17% of those charged were strangers to the victims. - 60% of the 3,000 women who have gone missing in Canada since 1980 are Indigenous. - Approximately 66% of the official MMIW cases are murders and 33% are unsolved disappearances. - 60% of known perpetrators are white men. - 75% of lndigenous girls under 18 have been sexually assaulted. - 4% are cases of suspicious death-deaths regarded as natural or accidental by police, but considered suspicious by family or community members. - Indigenous women make up 3% of the Canadian population and 30% of the female ...