Across the country, people were using Valentine's Day to remember the lives of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women.
An event called Love in Action took place at Dawson College Thursday night.
It was a community feast featuring words and performances from elders, activists and singers.
Iskweu project co-ordinator Jessica Quijano said the message of the night was that love works in solidarity with eliminating the causes of suffering.
"There's a lot more social awareness about it so that's very, very positive. However for my project, following up with police, we're still seeing the same issues of police not taking enough action when an indigenous woman or girl goes missing or when there's a death," said Quijano.
"There's a long history of police not caring about indigenous women's lives."
She is however, optimistic that things can change for the better.
Valentine's Day commemorations of this sort started in Vancouver in 1991 after a Coast Salish woman was murdered and the case received very little media attention.
