Justice for Cabot Square MMIWG2S+

Manufactured Death: A Story of MMIWG2S+ in Cabot Square

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Since 2005, over a dozen Indigenous women have been murdered or found dead under suspicious circumstances in Montreal. Many of these deaths occurred under the veil of a broader pattern of violence, perpetrated by a serial predator. A man whose violence went unchecked for decades. Most of these deaths have occurred in the Cabot Square area of downtown Montreal, a historic gathering place for urban Indigenous people, which has since become a site of violence and exploitation of Indigenous women and girls. "Manufactured Death: A Story of MMIWG2S+ in Montreal" is a podcast about the rampant violen...

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It Never Changes to Stop 15.05.2026 1:00:07

In our final episode of “Manufactured Death”, we talk about how to move forward with this story, what needs to happen so as to ensure this pattern of apathy and neglect doesn’t keep repeating. Necessary investigative, preventative, and material improvements are also discussed as means of ensuring adequate action on the situation of MMIWG2S+ in Montreal. Theories, patterns, and summaries of ca...

The Walking Dead 14.05.2026 1:09:19

In our fifth episode of "Manufactured Death”, we explore a series of seven suspicious deaths of Indigenous women which occurred between January 2023 to July 2024. We look at how government closures of safe consumption sites and systemic apathy to the opioid and toxic drug supply provides the perfect guise to get away with murder of Indigenous women, including several examples of this. The death of...

No Safe Place 13.05.2026 1:07:33

In our fourth episode of “Manufactured Death”, we discuss some suspicious deaths of Indigenous women in Cabot Square following the arrest and incarceration of The Wrathful One in 2018, along with the 2019 disappearance of Donna Pare. Homicide staged as suicide within the broader context of MMIWG2S+ is explored, as it relates to Nunia, Siasi, Sharon, and Tess’ deaths. We talk about how the continue...

How to Make an Inuit Disappear 11.05.2026 1:02:40

In our third episode of “Manufactured Death”, we start out by considering what happens when dominant social scripts render certain people as disposable, and then push these people into marginalized public spaces. We look at how the ways in which these dominant social scripts essentially give permission for killers to get away with murder, while giving police an excuse not to investigate. Specifica...

April 19, 1983 Jane Doe 11.05.2026 1:08:30

In our second episode, we start out by discussing a historic case of MMIWG2S+ in Montreal; an Inuk Jan Doe who has been unknown since 1983. This case, and the failure of police to adequately investigate this woman’s death has set a precedent for the neglect surrounding cases of MMIW2GS+ today. The historic MMIWG2S+ cases of Nellie Bobbish, Alacie Nowrakudluk, and Cynthia Kudjick are discussed, alo...

A Forgotten Place 07.05.2026 1:00:27

In our introductory episode, we begin our story by situating Cabot Square as a microcosm within Canada’s broader history and ongoing legacy of colonialism and white supremacy. Namely, we answer the question: how did Cabot Square come to be a gathering space for urban Indigenous people in Montreal? How was the site of resistance coopted by non-Indigenous people and turned into a site of violence an...