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2 Wednesday December 16 2015 JUSTICE MMIW NEWS BRIEFS Cancer group needs cash for new survivor care program With cancer as the leading cause of death in the NWT the NWTBreastHealthBreastCancerActionGrouphasaplan to address this need by launching the Survivor Care Plan Demonstration Project a program to empower and engage cancer survivors in their own health and wellness. The Ac- tion Groups challenge is nding enough funds to complete thistwo-yearsupportproject.Donationscanbemadein-per- sonbychequeoronthewebsiteathttpbreasthealthnwt. Fort Mac man rst in Alberta to be charged with sex tourism A Fort McMurray man is the rst Albertan to be charged withsextourismafterallegedlytravellingtoIrelandtohave sexwitha13-year-oldgirl.JashuaRobertTremblay33was chargedwithsextourismtwocountsofsexualinterference and luring after a lengthy and complex investigation. Po- lice accused Tremblay of travelling to Ireland twice in late 2013 to have sex with the girl who he met online and who was 13 at the time. This is the rst time the Alberta Law Enforcement Response Teams ALERT have laid charges under child sex tourism which was added to the Canadian Criminal Code in 1997. Charges in Hay River murder stayed Charges have been stayed against a woman arrested in connection with a homicide in Hay River earlier this year. Lori Roberta Hansen 41 was charged with second-degree murder after the remains of Roberta Lynn Sabourin 42 a mother of ve and a lifelong resident of Hay River were found in an apartment high-rise on April 8. On Dec. 8 the Public Prosecution Service of Canada directed that a stay of proceedings be entered in court according to the RCMP. No other information was provided. By CRAIG GILBERT Tina Fontaine 15 was found deceased and wrapped in plastic in the Red River on Aug. 17 2014. Winnipeg homicide inves- tigators arrested New Bruns- wick native Raymond Corm- ier in the Vancouver area on Dec. 9 2015. The charge of second-degree murder laid against him has not been proven in court. News of the discovery of Fontaines body reverberated nationwideandrenewedcalls foraninquiryintothe issue of missing and murdered indig- enous women. Fontaine was reportedmissingAug.92015 after she ran away from the hotel where she was staying as a ward of Child and Fam- ily Services. She had several encoun- ters with Cormier and both frequented the same eastside house the citys deputy chief of police Danny Smyth said Friday. He said the inves- tigation was long and com- plicated in part because it was difcult to track Fon- tainesmovementsinthedays leading up to her murder. It Recidivist from Maritimes charged with murder of Tina Fontaine involved forensic investiga- tion interviews and covert operations. The murder of this child and lets not forget she was a child has shocked and out- raged our community and I think that outrage has res- onated across our nation Smyth said. Investigators know Tina was highly vul- nerable and was exploited during her time on the run. Smyth said Cormier had an extensive criminal history including convictions for vi- olent offences and has been in and out of prison most of his adult life. Police believe he killed Fontaine on the last of several encounters with her. Smyth would not elab- orate on the nature of their relationship. They are not looking for any other suspects. Smyth said he hoped the announcement would bring some closure to Fontaines family. An outpouring of support began after the po- lice press conference. Win- nipeg Mayor Brian Bow- man thanked police and said he hoped the arrest would bring long-awaited peace in a tweet. Manitoba Keewatinowi Okimakanak MKO Grand Chief Sheila North Wilson said in a press release her heart goes out to Fontaines friends and family. I pray they feel a sense of relief despite the horrible tragedy theyre going through right now she said. For the community I imagine it brings all kinds of emotions once again but I hope they find some sense of peace knowing one more perpetra- tor is off our streets. Indigenous women still a target Terry Villeneuve who sits on the Native Womens Association of the NWT says indigenous women are more likely to be killed in the Northwest Territories. In the NWT there were up to 20 cases of missing and murdered women in the past 30 years and 17 of those were Aboriginal she said. That means 85 per cent were Aboriginal even though only 50 per cent of the population is made up of Aboriginal people. From 1980 to 2014 police services across Canada re- ported 6849 homicides in- volving female victims. For that same period Aborigi- nal female victims accounted for 16 per cent 1073 of all female victims of homicide. Since 1991 however the number of non-Aboriginal female homicide victims has been shrinking driving the proportion of Aboriginal fe- male homicide victims up from 14 per cent in that year to 21 per cent in 2014. In the NWT there were four homicides in 2014 up one from 2013 according to the RCMP there have been ve homicides so far in 2015 including that of May Elanik found outdoors in Aklavik Nov. 11. Acquaintance homicide was more common among non-Aboriginal female vic- tims than Aboriginal female victims 14 per cent versus 8 per cent while stranger ho- micide was similar between the two ve per cent versus four per cent. Please leave a message at 872-5543 for details. WESCLEAN NORTHERN SALES LTD. Ph 867 875-5100 Fax 867 875-5155 Avalon Cat Hair - long Size - medium Gender - female Avalon is a very loving and beautiful cat. 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SpayedNeutered Up-to-datewithroutineshots House trained SethFemaleYoung cat Black domestic longhair mix Looking for a new home Look at this little puffball Shes just the sweetest little baby kitty cat. She wants you to love her. Please take her home and give her love. Notice to our Wonderful Readers Next week the edition of December 23 will be the last of 2015 for the Northern Journal. We will not publish during the two holiday weeks and start the New Year on Wednesday January 13 2016. That edition will be our annual Year in Review special section where we recap all the events and activity highlights of 2015. The holidays are almost here Thank you and your helpers on behalf of all the happy Fort Smith kids who attended your special Christmas party this year. Youre the best PS. And thanks to Santa as well