We could feign shock at recent reports that members of the Vancouver Police Department were busted for sharing and watching pornography while at work, but are we really all that surprised? Certainly many feminists are not.

The basics of colonization:

To destroy a culture, you must destroy the children. You destroy the children by taking their mothers.

Women -- child-bearers, life-givers -- sit at the heart of the community. Indigenous culture is carried in the blood and breath of the mother who teaches the next generation. Two-legged and four-legged children alike are born falling to the ground and they fall down on the ground again to die.

To destroy a culture, you must destroy the mothers.

For 500 years on Turtle Island, colonization has threatened the culture, lives and land of Indigenous people.

Canada's oldest memorial march for missing and murdered women entered its third decade yesterday. Nearly 2,500 people walked through the streets of downtown Vancouver, drumming, singing, and praying at places where dozens of poor and mostly Indigenous women were killed.

With nearly 600 women on the Native Women's Association of Canada's missing or murdered list, it's both a tragedy and an inspiration that so many people continue to speak out and demand systemic change to prevent more deaths.