An Amber Alert system should be used to notify northern communities when a woman goes missing along the Highway of Tears, a missing women inquiry forum was told Tuesday.
"Reports should be taken more seriously," Michelle Angus told inquiry commissioner Wally Oppal at a community forum in Terrace.
"I've known four or five people who have gone missing," she recalled, adding there needs to be some sort of Amber Alert, a system now used to notify the public of a child abduction.
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Follow along here Watch the Terrace meeting at Kitsum Kalum Here Update: The Commission has informed us that the forums today and tomorrow will not be live streamed because the venues do not support the technology.
Highway 16.