By Anne Brodie Pulitzer-Prize winning investigative journalist and host of the acclaimed podcasts Stolen and Missing & Murdered Connie Walker guest hosts a heartbreaking edition of CBC’s The Fifth Estate tonight. Walker follows a thirty-year-old case gone cold, the murder of Sonya …
Connie Walker Checks in on the Thirty Year Old Unsolved MMIWG Death of Sonya Cywink.
Top - Sonya Cywink Bottom - Meggie Cywink and Connie Walker By Anne Brodie In 1994, 31-year old, pregnant Sonya Cywink from the Whitefish First Nation near Sudbury, was found murdered in a forest near London, Ontario. Thirty-one years later the case remains unsolved. Cywink's …
Sugarcane a Must See, Antoine Shines, Bro Crime, and Let’s Get Cuckoo
By Anne Brodie Just floored by Emily Kassie and Julian Brave NoiseCat’s searing documentary Sugarcane from Nat Geo/Disney. It comes with a strong warning as does this review. We follow NoiseCat, (of the Canim Lake Band Tsq'escenemc band in British Columbia, as he researches atrocities, victims …
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Marie Clements’ Provocative Series Bones of Crows Continues the Conversation on Colonialism and Impact.
Marie Clements takes her acclaimed film Bones of Crows to series to expand on the story of an Indigenous woman's struggles following a childhood of heartbreak and abuse. She was forcibly and legally removed from her childhood home and placed in an abusive residential school. We follow Aline, played …
Grace Dove’s Fearless Optimism in Bones of Crows
Marie Clements' one-hundred-year saga of the lives of an indigenous family in Canada is a work of art, transcendent and essential. Grace Dove is Aline, stolen from her family by the government and placed in a residential home run by sadistic nuns and priests, a fate all too common in our history. …
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