red dress day is a time to raise awareness for missing and murdered indigenous women girls and two spirit people it is reported that indigenous women and girls are 12 times more likely to be murdered or go missing than any other demographic Maya McNab a student at Bishop Lloyd Middle School shares that learning about the topic has been eye-opening yesterday we um read these few books and we had like these articles and it's honestly it's just awful how much like this happens and how no one like there's like no awareness National Women's Association of Canada states that between the year 2000 and 2008 10% of all female homicides in Canada were represented by Aboriginal women and girls and the participants who joined in on the walk knows exactly how big that problem is and it's really important to me to be out here today to like show awareness for my culture and stuff there was also a pipe ceremony and luncheon throughout the day as supporters gathered around shared stories and promoted awareness Callum Hawker Prime Time local news