“How many more of us need to die?” activists plead at Halifax’s Transgender Day of Remembrance vigil.

The 3,443 kilometre distance separating Halifax from Colorado Springs felt awfully small on Sunday evening, as about two dozen vigil attendees gathered at the Peace and Friendship Park to mark the annual Transgender Day of Remembrance. As trans people and their allies mourned those lost to transphobic-rooted violence over the years, many couldn’t help but look south of the Canada-US border…