This corridor is the primary focus of Project E-Pana, which focuses exclusively on the disappearance of young women along this route. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this route lined with billboards warning “Girls Don’t Hitchhike. Killer on the Loose!” In 2015, George Gretes “triple deleted” all government emails pertaining to this route, which disproportionately targets members of the First Nations.
ANSWER: Highway of Tears [prompt on Highway 16]
[10e] Project E-Pana is a task force under this Canadian national police service accused of institutional racism for its treatment of Canadian Indians, including its failure to investigate the murders of First Nations people along the Highway of Tears.
ANSWER: Royal Canadian Mounted Police [or RCMP or Mounties]
[10h] This 2008–2015 group was formed in part to investigate the RCMP’s role in the Canadian Indian residential school system. As part of their efforts, this group initiated the Missing Children and Unmarked Burials Project.
ANSWER: Truth and Reconciliation Commission [or TRC or Commission de vérité et réconciliation or CVR]
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