CUPE convention delegates marked October 4, a day that honours the lives of missing and murdered Indigenous women, with two moving and powerful events.
Introduced by CUPE President Mark Hancock at the start of the morning agenda, dancers Jade Brown and Amanda Gould lit up the stage in a multimedia performance that uses dance and video – as well as the driving rhythms of A Tribe Called Red’s “Electric Pow Wow Drum” – to tell the story of Canada’s stolen sisters.
At noon, hundreds of convention delegates followed Gloria Lepine and Nathalie Claveau, representatives on CUPE’s National Aboriginal Council, to Olympic Park for a Sisters in Spirit vigil to honour the lives of missing and murdered Indigenous women.
