Sixteen

That's the number of children left behind after the deaths of two native women here.  Found burned to death in a car, they were from the Stoney Reserve in Morley, just down the road. 

Sixteen children!  One of the women posted a picture on facebook at 3 a.m. Sunday morning, so they were alive then.  My question is, what were they doing in a car with an arab man in the middle of the night?  Who was looking after their brood of 16?  As I always told my kids when I imposed a curfew, "Nothing good ever happens after midnight."

And it's all downhill from there.

Although never mentioned in coverage of these deaths, drug use is a huge problem on that reserve.  In fact, the main industry is selling fentanyl and then reviving victims with naproxen.  They even train band members to administer the antidote, so crushing is the problem.

Makes you wonder how many hundreds of kids have been left behind by the deaths of the missing and murdered women?  When you engage in risky behaviour, as these women did, you can expect dire consequences.  And you have to know the rest of the country will be paying to raise your deserted offspring.