We just want to help them’; Blue Jean Jacket Day takes root in Cape Breton – PNI Atlantic News

Jun 03, 2025

Indigenous men are four times more likely to die by homicide than an Indigenous woman and seven times more likely to die by homicide than non-Indigenous people in Canada, according to 2020 data from Statistics Canada.

An initiative to honour the lives and memory of missing, murdered and exploited Indigenous men and boys (MMEIMB) is being commemorated country-wide on June 6 after being created in Alberta in 2023.

First Nation communities all across Cape Breton are finding ways to honour men and boys by wearing blue jean jackets on Friday.

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