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Humpback Whale Feather

A walk among the pines

Squamish, BC

Squamish, British Columbia, Canada

Alberta taxpayers are already spending millions on consultants to smooth the way with Indigenous nations for a new pipeline through British Columbia to the Pacific coast, a proposal that so far has been met with strident opposition. The biggest spending is $3.4 million with Sedgwick Strategies, a Delta-based company whose president, Byng Giraud, is a veteran of developing major projects and a longtime organizer for provincial and federal conservatives and the BC Liberals. Most recently Giraud was instrumental to the development of the Woodfibre liquefied natural gas export facility currently under construction near Squamish. He was the company’s first employee in North America and moved from serving as the president of corporate affairs to becoming the country manager on the project.

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Red Dress by Tlingit, Haida, and Squamish’s Himikalas Pamela Barker for The REDress Project and Missing Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and Two-Spirit LGBTQ+ People (MMIWG2S)

“On May 5, we observe the National Day of Awareness and Remembrance for Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and 2SLGBTQI+ people (MMIWG2S), also known as Red Dress Day. The REDress Project, conceived by Métis artist Jaime Black as "an aesthetic response to a critical national issue," serves as a powerful symbol. It draws attention to the gendered and racialized nature of violence against Indigenous peoples as a direct consequence of colonization, evoking presence through the marking of absence.

Today and every day, the Textile Museum of Canada honours the lives and legacies of MMIWG2S by bearing witness to their stories and commemorating their strength and spirits. We stand in solidarity with families and communities as they continue to pursue justice, healing, and meaningful change.