Feasibility study says short timeline important for landfill search
The study says one of the most important factors is the time between when a victim’s remains end up in a landfill and when a search begins.
MMIWG
MMIWG Inquiry Anniversary
On June 3, 2019, Reclaiming Power and Place: The Final Report of the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls.
The report goes into detail on the struggle families have with authorities over loved ones that have either been murdered or gone missing – and labels what Indigenous women have experienced since colonization as genocide.
The commissioners released 231 Calls for Justice from provincial, territorial and federal authorities.
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Rally in support of Manitoba landfill search at the legislature
No action on landfill search prompts rally.
Family mourns Tootinaozibeeng woman after remains found in rural Manitoba
More than three years after a First Nations woman from Tootinaozibeeng Treaty Reserve in northwestern…
RCMP find missing First Nations woman’s remains 3 years after disappearance
Police said earlier this week they were investigating her disappearance as a homicide.
Brother relieved missing sister from Winnipeg found alive
A happy ending is not the usual way missing persons stories end.
Feds say progress being made on MMIWG calls to justice, critics disagree
In spite of what advocates are saying, Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister Marc Miller says he believes…
Winnipeg is the epicentre for missing and murdered Indigenous women in Canada
Indigenous women account for 65% of homicides in Winnipeg between 2018-22.
Saskatchewan RCMP investigating two separate discoveries of human remains on First Nation
A forensic autopsy on the remains located in the nation’s landfill eliminated recent missing persons from the area.
Family of Cindy Gladue says province has ‘misplaced’ her remains
Gladue’s partial, preserved remains were brought into the courtroom by the crown prosecutor