Oct 3 In 2023, New Democratic Leader Wab Kinew led his party to government in Manitoba, becoming the first First Nations premier of a Canadian province. Oct 4 In 2023, the federal government said it was putting $740,000 toward further assessing the feasibility of searching a Winnipeg-area landfill for the remains of two First Nations women. Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister Gary Anandasangaree said more work needs to be done to figure out how a search can be undertaken. In 2023, a new Statistics Canada report said that between 2009 and 2021, Indigenous women and girls were killed at a rate six times higher than that of women and girls who were not Indigenous. It also said homicides of Indigenous women and girls are less likely to result in the most serious…
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