"Nigaan Sinclair, an Anishinaabe professor of native studies at the University of Manitoba has recently argued that 'We all suffer when one of us goes missing.'"
Natives are victims of other natives. Stop blaming whitey. Abuse in homes causes runaways. Native men abuse their women. They become prostitutes. Prostitutes often are abused and murdered and die of drugs use. Native men die of drug use in the cities, so the reserves don't know where they went. This problem is a native problem, not a society, not a white man's problem.
Excellent op-ed by Rubenstein. One caveat, though. He quotes the RCMP report as saying: "“… it would be INAPPROPRIATE to suggest significant difference in the prevalence of sex trade workers among Aboriginal female homicide victims as compared to non-Aboriginal female homicide victims.” What does this mean exactly? Inappropriate is a strange word to be using in statistical analysis. You would expect the report to say that Aboriginal female sex trade workers have or don't have a significantly higher or lower homicide rate than non-Aboriginals, but it doesn't say that. I won't review the data myself as it is too unpleasant a subject, but perhaps Rubenstein or one of his colleagues could do that.
Ambiguity & platitude are always the path of people/organizations who sit on the fence, trying desperately not to offend the powers that be, which in 2026 Canada are on the Left, many on the radical Left.
Yes, good point, Allan. However, you are redefining the RCMP statement to relate to female sex workers murdered by their clients, which that statement did not do. Just the same the attention paid to the monstrous killings of Indigenous prostitutes in Vancouver by Robert Picton and in Winnipeg by Jeremy Skibicki almost certainly have made many people believe that Indigenous prostitutes are more at risk of being killed by their clients, and more specifically their white, clients than non-Indigenous prostitutes. I take your point, that since the numbers are so small it would be hard to test that hypothesis in a way that would satisfy any accepted level of statistical significance but it might be worth doing anyway. The murders of those Indigenous women were not irrelevant, after all, and I know that isn't what you were saying. All the best to you in 2026, Allan.
The feds spent a huge amount of money to try to pin the missing/murdered women on whites and failed. They now choose to ignore the issue. Native men kill native women, always have, then they try to blame the residential schools if they get caught, most don't get caught unless they kill too frequently to be ignored.
Natives are victims of other natives. Stop blaming whitey. Abuse in homes causes runaways. Native men abuse their women. They become prostitutes. Prostitutes often are abused and murdered and die of drugs use. Native men die of drug use in the cities, so the reserves don't know where they went. This problem is a native problem, not a society, not a white man's problem.
Excellent op-ed by Rubenstein. One caveat, though. He quotes the RCMP report as saying: "“… it would be INAPPROPRIATE to suggest significant difference in the prevalence of sex trade workers among Aboriginal female homicide victims as compared to non-Aboriginal female homicide victims.” What does this mean exactly? Inappropriate is a strange word to be using in statistical analysis. You would expect the report to say that Aboriginal female sex trade workers have or don't have a significantly higher or lower homicide rate than non-Aboriginals, but it doesn't say that. I won't review the data myself as it is too unpleasant a subject, but perhaps Rubenstein or one of his colleagues could do that.
Ambiguity & platitude are always the path of people/organizations who sit on the fence, trying desperately not to offend the powers that be, which in 2026 Canada are on the Left, many on the radical Left.
",,,,and very few women in the sex trade, indigenous or otherwise, are murdered by their clients."
As very few are murdered by their clients, it's a statistical irrelevance.
Yes, good point, Allan. However, you are redefining the RCMP statement to relate to female sex workers murdered by their clients, which that statement did not do. Just the same the attention paid to the monstrous killings of Indigenous prostitutes in Vancouver by Robert Picton and in Winnipeg by Jeremy Skibicki almost certainly have made many people believe that Indigenous prostitutes are more at risk of being killed by their clients, and more specifically their white, clients than non-Indigenous prostitutes. I take your point, that since the numbers are so small it would be hard to test that hypothesis in a way that would satisfy any accepted level of statistical significance but it might be worth doing anyway. The murders of those Indigenous women were not irrelevant, after all, and I know that isn't what you were saying. All the best to you in 2026, Allan.
The feds spent a huge amount of money to try to pin the missing/murdered women on whites and failed. They now choose to ignore the issue. Native men kill native women, always have, then they try to blame the residential schools if they get caught, most don't get caught unless they kill too frequently to be ignored.
Nigaan Sinclair, son of Murray Sinclair of the T&R Commission, may it forever live in infamy.
Is it any wonder he puts forward this nonsense?
"Words, words, words." Shakesapeare, "Hamlet".