#Brady Road landfill

[allthecanadianpolitics]

Protesters calling for a landfill search for the remains of two homicide victims aren't backing down, one week after they set up a second camp outside the human rights museum in Winnipeg, a family member of one of the women says.

"It sucks that I have to stay at this camp, day in and day out, and fight for something that shouldn't have to be a fight," Jorden Myran told CBC on Tuesday at Camp Marcedes — named in honour of her sister Marcedes Myran, whose remains are believed to be in Prairie Green landfill, just north of Winnipeg.

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Protesters who had been blockading the entrance to the city-owned Brady Road landfill in south Winnipeg earlier this month set up Camp Marcedes outside the Canadian Museum for Human Rights, hoping the new camp would draw more support.

Camp Morgan, which was named in honour of Morgan Harris, whose remains are also believed to be in Prairie Green, has stood outside Brady Road landfill since December.

The new camp has been drawing attention, Myran said, with people bringing food, water, firewood and signs that call for the landfill to be searched.

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Protesters blocking the Brady Road landfill in south Winnipeg say their resolve is even stronger after a man shovelled a truckload of soil and debris onto an MMIWG mural near the blockade Sunday.

The blockade went up last week after the province refused to fund a search of Prairie Green landfill north of Winnipeg for the remains of two Indigenous women. The city ordered those blocking the roadway to vacate by noon Monday.

"Screw it. Who cares what they have to say? Who cares what they want? I'm not going to take no for an answer anymore," said Cambria Harris, whose mother's remains are believed to be at another landfill outside the city.

She said Camp Morgan — which has been at the Brady Road landfill since December— originally erected the blockade to "send a message," not to entirely block the landfill, which has two entrances.

But after the man's act on Sunday, she and others issued a call on social media for more "warriors" to join those on site, who said they're ready to keep rallying for change.

Harris said she wasn't at the blockade Sunday when the man in a black pickup truck dumped soil on the mural, but she saw the video of it happen, which she posted on social media.

In the video, the man is seen shovelling soil and debris from the back of his truck onto the mural, while telling protesters to "Take care of your own people." After someone responds [“we are, you fucking dumbass”], he asks, "Then why are they dead?"

Harris questions how he got past the security on site.

"Why are you so angry to feel like you have to take that extreme of a measure of a hate crime?" she asked.

"You don't realize that you're talking to an entire group of people who have been pulverized their entire life through systemic oppression."

"I'm outraged. I'm enraged. I'm infuriated," said supporter Melissa Morrisseau, who said she was at the landfill Sunday to help give a voice to missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls and their families.

"I'm here till the very end," she said.

Florance Smith was also there to take a stand with the families.

"They need to dig for our women," Smith said. "They just think that we belong in the garbage."

Harris said she believes the province's decision to not support a landfill search shows that the government doesn't care, and she now feels she's been disrespected by all three levels of government. She said it shouldn't have come to measures like the letter sent by the city, telling protesters to shut down the blockade.

"I've never ever understood it, why this kind of trauma is our fault," Harris said.

The mural, a red dress with the words "for our sisters" written on the skirt, was painted on the entrance road to the landfill, Ethan Boyer Way.

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But after they realized the soil the man dumped contained cedar wood chippings, supporters decided to put them to use by sweeping the woodchips in a circle around the mural, she said.

"Cedar's our protection medicine, and we decided that we were going to include it into our art piece and circle her in protection," Bousquet said.

"We turned an ugly into a beautiful here. That's what our people are known for doing."

For Bousquet, it shows how resilient her community is.

"No matter what you throw on us … we're always going to create something beautiful," she said.

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"Manitoba First Nations leaders are calling for the resignation of Winnipeg police chief Danny Smyth.

The Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs (AMC), alongside Long Plain First Nation Chief Kyra Wilson, called for Smyth to step down Thursday, due to the police service’s refusal to search the Prairie Green Landfill for remains of three victims of an alleged serial killer.

Smyth has said that the remains are likely in the landfill north of the city, but that no search is planned, due in part to the amount of time that has passed and the fact that there’s no known starting point for a search.

The manager of the site has also said a search would be difficult at the private landfill, due to the constant movement at the site, but said the company is cooperating fully with police and expressed condolences to the victims’ families.

Police said 10,000 truckloads of refuse were dumped in the area since May, when the murders of Morgan Harris, Marcedes Myran, and an unidentified victim, who is being referred to as Buffalo Woman (Mashkode Bizhiki’ikwe), are believed to have taken place. Trash at the landfill is also compacted with heavy mud at a depth of about 12 metres.

In an interview with 680 CJOB’s The Start on Thursday morning, prior to the call for his resignation, Smyth said the ability to search the landfill is outside of police expertise.

“The circumstances at Prairie Green are way different than Brady (Road Landfill),” the police chief said.

“Brady was within our skills. Prairie Green is not — it would be closer to a very hazardous archaeological dig, and that’s not a skill that we have.”

Jeremy Skibicki has been charged with first-degree murder in the deaths. He was previously charged with first-degree murder in the death of Rebecca Contois, whose remains were found earlier this year at the Brady Road landfill.

“Many communities, organizations, and public leaders across the nation, are asking for a thorough search to be conducted at the Prairie Green landfill,” Long Plain First Nation, the home community of both Harris and Myran, said in a statement Thursday.

“The families of the three women deserve to have closure. Morgan Harris, Marcedes Myran and Mashkode Bizhiki’ikwe deserve better. Leadership will continue to advocate to have them found and brought back to their home fires.”

Long Plain’s Wilson will appear with AMC Grand Chief Cathey Merrick at a news conference in Ottawa, where Indigenous leaders and families of the victims have been calling for federal assistance with the situation in recent days, on Thursday."

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To be clear, police chief Danny Smyth is refusing to search for the bodies of three Indigenous women who are victims of a (for legal reasons, alleged) serial killer, despite knowing that they are likely there. If the women in question were white, they would be searching that landfill by now. No question.

Their names are Morgan Harris, Marcedes Myran, and an unidentified woman who is being referred to as Mashkode Bizhiki’ikwe (meaning: buffalo woman).

We should all be outraged.

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Morgan Harris's daughters say police told them her body is likely in Prairie Green Landfill north of Winnipeg

Morgan Harris’s daughters say police told them her body is likely in Prairie Green Landfill north of Winnipeg

WARNING: This story contains distressing details. The daughters of Morgan Harris — one of four women police allege were killed by a Winnipeg man — say police told them their mother’s remains are believed to be at a landfill north of the city, not the Brady Road landfill. Kera and Cambria Harris say they were told by police on Monday that their mother’s remains are believed to be at Prairie Green…

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Joint CUPE Statement on searching the Brady Road and Prairie Green landfill sites

On July 13, CUPE 500, representing municipal staff at the Brady Road Resource Management Facility, including the landfill and 4R Winnipeg Depot, provided a letter of support to the organizers and families who are calling for a search for MMIWG2S at the site. In our July 13 message we expressed that we are deeply concerned with the City and Province’s inability to provide support and closure for families of missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls and 2SLGBTQI* members of the community. CUPE believes that the Brady site should be thoroughly searched, and we are willing to work with the City and other authorities to provide support and expertise to any organization conducting a search. We have been and are willing to work with the City on any use or redeployment of current staff at the Brady site for the duration of any search. Any search conducted at the Brady site should be conducted by professionals in the field of searching for missing persons, and searchers must be provided appropriate PPE and training, as outlined in the feasibility study. Premier Stefanson’s remarks that safety concerns prohibit a search are false: there is no reason this cannot be done. CUPE supports the right for demonstrators to peacefully protest at the site, and we urge the City to ensure that no CUPE member is asked to intervene in any demonstrations. CUPE 500 is committed to work with the City to develop a plan to ensure future use of the Brady site accommodates any searches, should they be necessary. This includes greater public control and oversight over how solid waste is collected and deposited (currently garbage collection in Winnipeg is done by private companies), a grid system for deposits, better monitoring of the fleet, and the development of an action plan for the future. CUPE believes that action is more important than words, and we expect to be at the table where we can offer our expertise at the site, as well as contribute to future plans to ensure searches can be done expediently. We thank the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs and the families of MMIWG2S for receiving our correspondence and acknowledging our support at the July 17 press conference that highlighted the feasibility of the search. As Canada’s largest union, representing over 715,000 workers across the country including more than 37,000 throughout Manitoba, CUPE stands with the AMC and families of MMIWG2S and supports calls to have the Prairie Green Landfill and the Brady site searched immediately. Gord Delbridge, President, CUPE Local 500 Gina McKay, President, CUPE Manitoba Mark Hancock, National President, CUPE

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[ad_1] A crowd of Calgarians marched from Stephen Avenue to City Hallm wearing red clothing in support of Camp Morgan in Winnipeg, on Wednesday evening. The remains of two Indigenous women, Morgan Harris and Marcedes Myra, are believed to be in the Prairie Green landfill just north of Winnipeg. Manitoba Premier Heather Stefanson issued a statement last month saying her government would not support or fund the search of the landfill, citing safety risks.This decision prompted protests and public outcry, as well as a blockade at the Brady Road landfill south of Winnipeg, which lasted nearly two weeks.Wab Kinew, leader of the Manitoba NDP, pledged to search the landfills if his party forms government in October.“We’re not going anywhere, we’re here to get louder and make sure our voices are heard,” said Melissa Robinson, a cousin to Morgan Harris, outside the Manitoba legislature on Aug. 3. Story continues below advertisement Deborah Gopher, one of the organizers of the march, said Indigenous women deserve to feel safe in their communities, calling the situation in Winnipeg a “national tragedy.” The march was organized to stand in solidarity with those at Camp Morgan, she said.“Search the landfills,” Gopher told Global News. “We want to matter. We want to be safe. We don’t want to be dumped like trash. We want our cases to be investigated. We want to stop the killings of our people.” Trending Now Kitchener mayor fires back at Piers Morgan for pot-shot on Justin Trudeau social media post An exodus from Canada’s priciest provinces is driving many to plant ‘New Roots’ Gopher said a lot of other cities have shown their support for Camp Morgan and landfills all over Canada should be searched for missing and murdered Indigenous people. Hundreds of people gathered in front of Vancouver Art Gallery on Aug. 3 to show solidarity with the families of Harris and Myra. Supporters from Edmonton brought dozens of red dresses to the Brady Road landfill on Sunday.The red clothing symbolizes the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women movement, Gopher said.“Red is the colour spirits see. It calls back our spirits that are lost on the other side to come to us and to go home,” She said. “We want allies to take action … We want all Canadians to take action because it is only then that the systems start to change.”— With files from Marney Blunt, Global News. &copy 2023 Global News, a division of Corus Entertainment Inc. [ad_2] Source link

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The Manitoba government says it won’t support a search of a landfill outside of Winnipeg where the remains of two Indigenous women who were murdered are believed to be located.

Winnipeg police liaison officers arrived at the Brady Landfill Friday night to a swarm of protesters who, despite a court order, remained blocking the road.

Just imagining how outraged the populace would be if it were another demographic. If they were young blonde white women, maybe. Or related to someone with more pull. More societal resources.

We would be hearing about how it isn't about money, it's about the principle of not letting them be treated like garbage.

Instead, the families are hearing that it's too expensive, too risky, too whatever.

Some people are more equal than others.

[mey-rin-is-fabulous]

Oh my god how hard is it to actually search a landfill.

So there's been a blockade at a Manitoba landfill for like weeks now I think. Indigenous people want the landfill to be searched for bodies understable and the judge just ordered them to back down which the government has been trying to do the whole time.

Like if you want them to stop blocking the road search the goddang landfill for these bodies it's not rocket science.

If white bodies were believed to be in there it would have been searched by now.

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I didn't want to share this here because I want this blog to be an escape from stories like this but this is just too important and I don't see it boosted nearly enough. Please reblog and boost this. Put pressure on the RCMP to search the Brady Road Landfill. Bring these Indigenous women home.

"This is a very unfair situation. I do not agree with how this is being handled. These are people who you are leaving alone in a landfill. These are human beings. How can you even fathom the idea to leave them there? These women are deserving of a proper resting place, not to be left alone in a landfill in the dead of winter.

If you want to respect and honor them, stop making excuses as to why you can't find them. You CAN and you are just REFUSING to. You are the police. You are here to help our community and give right to the citizens. How is this doing your job? If you can't find them then why haven't you asked for help? Why can't you ask for help nationwide rather than just having a small amount of people conduct the searches?

All of your reasons are just meaningless EXCUSES in this important case.

These are FOUR WOMEN, one you have found but now you refuse to find the last three. What is the reasoning for that?

We have the people who are willing to help and do the work for you but YOU ARE NOT ACCEPTING IT. What is the thought process behind this? This is ridiculous and you can't keep withholding this search.

AND IF YOU WON'T LOOK FOR THEM, THEN WE WILL."

-Kiera Harris, daughter of Morgan Harris (murdered by Winnipeg serial killer along with 3 other Indigenous women)

[winnipegwinterpeg]

Dozens of people outside Winnipeg's Brady Road landfill have built barricades and are signalling their unwillingness to leave, despite a noon deadline from the city to vacate the area and the possibility of legal action.

Cambria Harris, whose mother's remains are believed to be in the Prairie Green landfill north of Winnipeg, is one of the people who called for the blockade to be erected and for others to join the demonstration at the Brady Road landfill.

The blockade of the city-run Brady Road landfill began Thursday after Manitoba Premier Heather Stefanson said the province would not support a search of the privately owned Prairie Green Landfill north of the city, where the remains of Morgan Harris and Marcedes Myran were believed to have been dumped last year.

"When you say you won't move forward with the search, you're telling my community that it's OK and that you condone the continuous dumping of Indigenous women," Harris said in an interview on Monday.

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Harris's aunt, Melissa Robinson, said what's happening is not acceptable.

"We're talking about our women laying in landfills. You don't put a dollar on that — absolutely not. I don't care if it costs $200 million, $300 million, they need to go and get them. I'm not going to have my nieces go sit at a landfill to visit their mom for the rest of eternity. It's wrong."

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Some members of the group of demonstrators at the dump moved to the Leaf — a conservatory in Assiniboine Park, where Manitoba's premier is hosting officials from seven provinces — on Monday afternoon.

Carrying drums and a megaphone, the people named missing women and chanted, "We are not trash," while demanding Stefanson reverse her decision.

After speeches were made by members of the group, they left peacefully.

The remains of Sue Caribou's niece, Tanya Nepinak, are believed to have been dumped at the Brady Road landfill in 2011, but none were found following a six-day search by police.

Caribou wants to see all landfills searched for the remains of missing Indigenous women.

"We want our loved ones home. We want closure," she said.

"No human being belongs in the trash."

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Dozens block Brady Road Landfill entrance to call for search

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Protesters block entrance to Brady Road landfill south of Winnipeg, call for extensive search for MMIWG2S

Protesters block entrance to Brady Road landfill south of Winnipeg, call for extensive search for MMIWG2S

WARNING: This story contains distressing details. People visiting the Brady Road landfill south of Winnipeg on Sunday afternoon were turned away as protesters blocked access to the waste management facility to call on all levels of government to search for the remains of missing people. Cambria Harris, the eldest daughter of Morgan Harris — one of four victims of alleged serial killer Jeremy…

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Winnipeg police board considers search of the landfill that may contain remains of 2 women

The chair of Winnipeg's police board says officials are trying to find a way to conduct what he calls a meaningful search for the bodies of two First Nations women believed to be in a landfill north of the city. The police board met on Thursday evening with police Chief Danny Smyth and senior police inspectors to discuss the calls to search the Prairie Green landfill in the rural municipality of Rosser. "We're also going to consult with industry experts, whether it's forensic anthropologists, waste management experts, or excavation experts," St. Norbert-Seine River Coun. Markus Chambers, the police board chair, told CBC News on Friday. Any search of that landfill would be beyond the expertise of the Winnipeg Police Service because it would involve excavation, he said. Smyth said last week that he believes the remains of two women allegedly killed by Jeremy Skibicki are in the privately operated landfill north of the city, but that a search wouldn't be feasible at this point. That ignited calls by First Nations advocacy groups and family members for Smyth to resign. Chambers said companies with expertise are approaching the city with offers of help, and the city is consulting with all levels of government to discuss the next steps. "Anything is possible. It does take resources," he said. Jeremy Skibicki was charged last week with first-degree murder in the deaths of Marcedes Myran, Morgan Harris, and a third woman, whom community members have named Mashkode Bizhiki'ikwe or Buffalo Woman because police do not know her identity. Skibicki was initially charged in May with first-degree murder in the death of Rebecca Contois, 24, another First Nations woman living in Winnipeg. Her remains were found near Skibicki's home and at the city's Brady Road landfill. While police don't yet know where Buffalo Woman's remains are, they believe Harris and Myran's are at Prairie Green, just north of the Perimeter Highway. Concerning the calls for Smyth's resignation, Winnipeg Mayor Scott Gillingham told CBC Manitoba Information Radio host Marcy Markusa on Friday morning that it was not his priority at the moment. "I can absolutely appreciate the feeling in the community," he did say. Gillingham and Premier Heather Stefanson announced earlier on Thursday that Prairie Green has paused its operations, with no new materials to be added to the site. That halt will continue "until the next steps can be determined," Gillingham told Markusa on Friday. "We don't know what those next steps are right now. I haven't, certainly, predetermined that." He wants more information about what a search would entail while hearing from the families of the missing women and Indigenous leaders "will also be very important in the next steps of this process," he said. Gillingham intends to make some calls to the families and leaders on Friday. Chambers wants any search that is conducted to go beyond being "performative." "It is now bringing comfort to a family and a community that has been grieving for so long about the injustices that they've experienced," he said. Gillingham expressed sorrow and condolences to the families "walking through this very, very difficult journey at this time" and the Indigenous leaders supporting them. "For all of Winnipeg, this has, and rightly so, gone to the core of our soul as a city," he said. "We just cannot accept this. We have to do more to protect Indigenous women and girls."