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Annie Hylton

Annie Hylton (@HyltonAnne) won a gold National Magazine Award for her 2020 feature “Searching for Mackie,” published in The Walrus.
Photograph looking over the shoulder of Alvin Baptiste. He is holding a printed list of names of missing Indigenous children.
Justice / May 2023

Where the Children Are Buried

March 29, 2023March 30, 2023 - by Annie Hylton

Thousands of Indigenous children died at residential schools across Canada. This is the story of one community’s search for unmarked graves

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A man leaves a fortified prison for darkness and emptiness, a chain still encircling his ankle
Current Affairs / March/April 2022

Endless Exile: The Tangled Politics Keeping a Uyghur Man in Limbo

February 28, 2022March 10, 2022 - by Annie Hylton

Exonerated after four years in Guantánamo Bay, Ayoob Mohammed is still unable to join his family in Canada

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A hand hovers over a Samsung phone. The phone background is an image of Mackie Basil.
March 2020 / Society

The Search for Mackie Basil

February 12, 2020March 27, 2020 - by Annie Hylton

Seven years ago, a young Indigenous woman from Tache, BC, went to a party and never came back. Her family won’t stop looking for her

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Is Canada to Blame for Human Rights Abuses in Guatemala?

June 30, 2017April 5, 2020 - by Annie Hylton

Canadian mining firms are not held responsible for horrors inflicted on Indigenous communities by foreign subsidiaries. But a Toronto court could change that

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