WINNIPEG – The province has declared Oct. 4 an official day to honour missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls.
On Thursday the legislative assembly voted unanimously in favour of the bill, which was introduced by NDP MLA Nahanni Fontaine.
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“An official day will bring greater recognition of the crisis of violence against Indigenous women and girls,” Fontaine said in a news release.
More than 1,200 Indigenous women have gone missing or been murdered since 1980.
Oct. 4 is already a day thousands across the country pause to honour and remember, but the NDP said Manitoba is the first in Canada to make it official.
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