A reminder that justice for Barbara Kentner could be about more than a prison sentence for the man who killed her. Justice could also involve emotional, financial and physical support for her surviving family - something that the Canadian state does not give/consider at present.

We have to remember that racialized killings of Native women in a state that continues genocide against Indigenous peoples, are connected to that genocide. Real reconciliation would look at these sorts of racist individual acts as reactions to this specific historical context.

A historical context that Canada has consciously created since even before it was officially a nation and, thus, should be held accountable for. When you tell your white population that Indigenous ppl aren't human in the same way they are - thru policies, laws, gaps in funding...

Education, miseducation, segregation, residential schools, social services - they see us as sub-human. They view our women as disposable. They view murders of our women as acceptable, even desirable. This is the result of over 150 years of Canada's murderous, genocidal intent.

Real justice for the loss of our women would address Barbara Kentner's murder, and, indeed, the murders of many of our women, as the result of years of genocidal ideation willfully imposed on Canada's population. Canada should pay for that, just as the individuals it radicalized