Canada's Lethal "Highway of Tears"
Highway 16 stretches more than 800 miles across Canada, from Prince Rupert on the coast east through the Rockies to the border with Alberta. Since the 1970s, as many as four dozen people (mostly young women) have gone missing along this stretch of isolated wilderness highway. Some of them were later found dead, but most have simply vanished.
Many Canadians are calling this another series of botched RCMP investigations. Most damning, the RCMP didn't get involved until recently, when a white woman went missing. However, according to tribal leaders, 43 aboriginal women had already gone missing by that point. Did media and police interest only awaken when a white woman's life was lost? It certainly seems that way.
Many Canadians are calling this another series of botched RCMP investigations. Most damning, the RCMP didn't get involved until recently, when a white woman went missing. However, according to tribal leaders, 43 aboriginal women had already gone missing by that point. Did media and police interest only awaken when a white woman's life was lost? It certainly seems that way.
