In Canada, a daughter’s fight to bring her murdered mother home | Crime

Donna Bartlett sits at a wooden kitchen table, her slight frame perched on the edge of her chair. With its warm lighting and walls adorned with artwork by Indigenous artists, Candace House, a one-of-a-kind support centre for families affected by violent crime in downtown Winnipeg, feels a long way from the cold, sterile court two blocks away.

The 67-year-old spent countless hours here during Skibicki’s six-week trial last summer. During those gruelling weeks, the families of the murdered…