October 4: Sisters in Spirit When Remembrance Carries Forward

October 4 marked the National Day of Action for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls and 2SLGBTQI+ people. Sisters in Spirit is a nationwide movement that grew from a research and advocacy initiative launched by the Native Women’s Association of Canada. Sisters in Spirit Vigils bring families, survivors and communities together across the country to honour those who have been lost and to continue calls for safety, justice and meaningful change.

Remembrance and action have long been connected on this day. Behind every call for change are lives, families and communities, and generations of advocacy that continue to carry this work forward.

Beyond a Day of Remembrance
The significance of this day reaches beyond a single moment of recognition. The National Inquiry’s 231 Calls for Justice reach across governments, institutions, communities and systems, including health and wellness. They speak to the many places where safety, dignity and access to care intersect. Within primary care, those connections can be present in everyday relationships, often in ways that are quiet, complex and not immediately visible.

Carrying It Forward
Remembrance and action meet in the same place: in honouring those who are missing or have been lost, standing alongside families and survivors, and keeping their calls for safety and justice present beyond October 4.

Continue Exploring
Reclaiming Power and Place
Explore the Final Report and 231 Calls for Justice from the National Inquiry into
Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls.

A Current Look at Progress
NWAC’s 2026 Annual Scorecard offers a current independent look at progress on the MMIWG2S+ National Action Plan and Calls for Justice.

Continue the Learning
Nawh Whu’nus’en – We See in Two Worlds
Trauma Sensitive Practices for Collectively Healing in Relationship – Level 1
Continuing the thread of relationship, safety and culturally grounded care, this UBC CPD virtual workshop brings together Indigenous ways of knowing, trauma-sensitive practice and land-based approaches to healing.

The session is guided by an interdisciplinary faculty bringing perspectives from Indigenous cultural safety, land-based healing, clinical practice, counselling, lived experience and Elder knowledge.

November 3 |5:30–8:30 p.m. PT | Virtual
Up to 2.75 Mainpro+/MOC Section 1 credits