Manitoba and Ottawa Commit $20 Million Each to Landfill Search for Indigenous Women’s Remains

Indigenous protesters say a search of a Winnipeg-area landfill for the remains of women can be done safely and must go ahead. Activists blockade the main road into the Brady Road landfill, just outside of Winnipeg, Monday, July 10, 2023. David Lipnowski/The Canadian Press

The Manitoba government and Ottawa are committing $20 million each to cover the costs of searching a landfill for the remains of two indigenous women at the centre of a first-degree murder trial.

The money will go toward a search of the privately-owned Prairie Green landfill north of Winnipeg, where the remains of Morgan Harris and Marcedes Myran are believed to be.