WINNIPEG — A day after MLA Kevin Chief announced he was stepping down as MLA in Point Douglas, a local activist is hoping to take his spot.
On Thursday, Bernadette Smith announced she will be running for the New Democratic Party nomination in the area.
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Smith, a Métis woman who grew up in the North End, is an advocate for missing and murdered Indigenous women in the province.
She is the co-founder of the Coalition for Families of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women of Manitoba. She also helped launched Drag the Red, a movement run by volunteers who take to Winnipeg rivers by boat and on foot looking for missing people.
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Her sister, Claudette Osborne has been missing from Winnipeg since 2008.
Smith will formally announce her plans to seek the NDP nomination Friday morning at Neechi Commons.
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