Manufactured Death: A Story of MMIWG2S+ in Cabot Square

About Manufactured Death: A Story of MMIWG2S+ in Cabot Square

Since 2005, over a dozen Indigenous women have been murdered or found dead under suspicious circumstances in Montreal. Many of these deaths occurred under the veil of a broader pattern of violence, perpetrated by a serial predator. A man whose violence went unchecked for decades. Most of these deaths have occurred in the Cabot Square area of downtown Montreal, a historic gathering place for urban Indigenous people, which has since become a site of violence and exploitation of Indigenous women and girls. "Manufactured Death: A Story of MMIWG2S+ in Montreal" is a podcast about the rampant violence and sexual exploitation of Indigenous women and children in the Cabot Square area of Montreal, spanning decades, and how the failure of police, community organizations, the media, and the city itself to intervene lead to the deaths of countless Indigenous women. These deaths were not natural, but rather, through repeated and systemic neglect of Cabot Square and the Indigenous women who occupy this area, they were manufactured, socially constructed. In failing to do something, we all let this happen. In positioning Cabot Square as a “sore spot” of Montreal, this created a space where violence against Indigenous women and girls was and still is, permissible. This podcast spans the history of the crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls, trans and 2-Spirit people (MMIWG2S+) in Montreal, and how Cabot Square has become the epicentre for this violence. Beyond just looking at individual cases, this story takes a more expansive look, situating the current crisis of MMIWG2S+ in Montreal within Canada’s broader system of colonialism and genocide. This show is an urgent call to action in fighting for justice for these women, will you join us? To learn more, visit: www.justiceforcabotsquare.ca (http://www.justiceforcabotsquare.ca) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.

Publisher

Justice for Cabot Square MMIWG2S+

Category

society & culture · true crime

Language

en

Explicit

Yes

First episode

7 May 2026

Latest episode

15 May 2026

Latest episodes

6 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   15 May 2026

   It Never Changes to Stop

   In our final episode of “Manufactured Death”, we talk about how to move forward with this story, what needs to happen so as to ensure this pattern of apathy and neglect doesn’t keep repeating. Necessary investigative, preventative, and material improvements are also discussed as means of ensuring adequate action on the situation of MMIWG2S+ in Montreal. Theories, patterns, and summaries of cases are also provided, before leaving with hope for our fight to continue. To learn more, visit: www.justiceforcabotsquare.ca. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.

2. 

   14 May 2026

   The Walking Dead

   In our fifth episode of "Manufactured Death”, we explore a series of seven suspicious deaths of Indigenous women which occurred between January 2023 to July 2024. We look at how government closures of safe consumption sites and systemic apathy to the opioid and toxic drug supply provides the perfect guise to get away with murder of Indigenous women, including several examples of this. The death of Alasie Tukkiapik is discussed as part of this string of deaths, along with yet another hanging death. These deaths, and the lack of response to them, is situated within Achilles Mbembe’s concept of “necropolitics”, and the historic use of the “No Human Involved” classification of sex trade femicides. Visit: www.justiceforcabotsquare.ca to learn more. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.

3. 

   13 May 2026

   No Safe Place

   In our fourth episode of “Manufactured Death”, we discuss some suspicious deaths of Indigenous women in Cabot Square following the arrest and incarceration of The Wrathful One in 2018, along with the 2019 disappearance of Donna Pare. Homicide staged as suicide within the broader context of MMIWG2S+ is explored, as it relates to Nunia, Siasi, Sharon, and Tess’ deaths. We talk about how the continued and ongoing violence, death, and disappearances of Indigenous women in Cabot Square is indicative of the fact that this situation is bigger than any one person. It’s a broader, complex system that requires complex solutions. Quebec’s crown prosecution service had a chance to keep these women safe when The Wrathful One was charged and arrested in 2018, and then again, in 2023. And they failed. Visit www.justiceforcabotsquare.ca to learn more. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.

4. 

   11 May 2026

   How to Make an Inuit Disappear

   In our third episode of “Manufactured Death”, we start out by considering what happens when dominant social scripts render certain people as disposable, and then push these people into marginalized public spaces. We look at how the ways in which these dominant social scripts essentially give permission for killers to get away with murder, while giving police an excuse not to investigate. Specifically, we look at the killings of Nunia Grey, Siasi Tullaugak, and Sharon Baron, and their ties to The Wrathful One. Visit www.justiceforcabotsquare.ca to learn more. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.

5. 

   11 May 2026

   April 19, 1983 Jane Doe

   In our second episode, we start out by discussing a historic case of MMIWG2S+ in Montreal; an Inuk Jan Doe who has been unknown since 1983. This case, and the failure of police to adequately investigate this woman’s death has set a precedent for the neglect surrounding cases of MMIW2GS+ today. The historic MMIWG2S+ cases of Nellie Bobbish, Alacie Nowrakudluk, and Cynthia Kudjick are discussed, along with the cold cases of women involved in the sex trade in Montreal, including Doris Halfkenny Seale, Diane Thibault, Alice Cormier, Sharon Deslandes, Francine St. Hillaire, Chantal Sauriol, and Karen Margaret Lewis. We then discuss how the current impunity of murder and violence against Indigenous women and girls in Cabot Square is shaped by historic neglect of Indigenous women and women involved in the sex trade and facing sexual exploitation, of which women in Cabot Square occupy both. Visit www.justiceforcabotsquare.ca. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.

6. 

   7 May 2026

   A Forgotten Place

   In our introductory episode, we begin our story by situating Cabot Square as a microcosm within Canada’s broader history and ongoing legacy of colonialism and white supremacy. Namely, we answer the question: how did Cabot Square come to be a gathering space for urban Indigenous people in Montreal? How was the site of resistance coopted by non-Indigenous people and turned into a site of violence and exploitation? Visit www.justiceforcabot.ca to learn more. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.

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