Carrie Lester is surrounded by posters that tell of a people in despair. Outside the Indigenous and Northern Affairs government office in Toronto, she maintains a vigil she and others started in July to demand action for deeply troubled indigenous communities in Canada.
Four children aged from 12 to 16,
including two sisters, took their own lives in a single First Nations
community in northwestern Ontario in July, and activists say 33 people have died by suicide across the northern region of the province so far this year.