A brutal sexual assault of a native woman in northwestern Ontario that is being investigated as a hate crime has thrown fresh fuel on the fires of discontent being expressed in protests and demonstrations by first nations people across Canada.
A candlelight vigil to pray for female victims of crime was held on Wednesday night at a reserve adjacent to Thunder Bay, where the unnamed woman is recovering. She has told police she was assaulted, strangled and left for dead by two men who hurled racial epithets and denounced indigenous rights.
In the meantime, hotbeds of hatred against aboriginals such as Calgary are seeing a massive increase in hate messages on walls, burnings of aboriginal flags and attacks on aboriginal citizens as Harper’s gangs of thugs try to silence the aboriginal voice.
