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A rally calling for justice for Cindy Gladue was held Thursday April 2 on the sidewalk outside the 720 Bay Street offices of the Ministry of the Attorney General.
Gladue died in 2011 of blood loss in a bathtub at an Edmonton motel. Parts of her body were preserved and used as evidence by the Crown, who will appeal the recent acquittal of an Ontario trucker in the first-degree murder trial.
The defence successfully argued that Gladue, a 36-year-old mother of three and sex worker had not been cut with a sharp object but rather died from “rough sex.”
Protesters chanted, “Stop shaming sex workers, start helping them” and “Justice for Cindy, on our radar” in reference to Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s comments that a possible inquiry into the alarming incidence of missing and murdered indigenous women is not high on the Canadian government’s priorities.
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