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Preview: Boys don't cry - Is it time we start talking about our murdered and missing indigenous men?

Note: Our full story is available online now. Read it at http://www.thestarphoenix.com/entertainment/Boys/10983836/story.html

Grace Lafond-Barr believes healing starts in the home, so she moved her family to Muskeg Lake Cree Nation from Saskatoon two years ago to escape the city where murder took away her two brothers and a son.

Indigenous people in Canada are three times as likely to be victims of crime compared to non-indigenous people and the homicide rate for indigenous people is seven times that of non-aboriginal people — 8.8 compared to 1.3 victims per 100,000 people, according to Statistics Canada.

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