OTTAWA – Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says the federal government needs to do more to end the epidemic of violence that Indigenous women and girls face after police found the body of another Indigenous woman in a landfill this week.
Trudeau says it’s heartbreaking that discoveries like these continue to happen.
The Winnipeg homicide unit says it started an investigation after staff at the Brady Road landfill south of the city found the body of 33-year-old Linda Mary Beardy on Monday. Police say they do not believe the case is linked to the killing of Rebecca Contois, whose remains were found in the same landfill last year, or the killings of three other women. Police have said they believe the remains of Morgan Harris and Marcedes Myran are in a different, privately run Prairie Green landfill north of Winnipeg, but they have not been found. The prime minister says his Liberal government has made significant strides in countering gender-based violence, but there’s more it can be doing. “My heart goes out to the community in Winnipeg and to the families of the woman who was … left in this way,’’ Trudeau told reporters Wednesday.
“We will continue to be there with the community as it grieves, but we will also continue to be there to put an end to this unconscionable violence.’’ Source: ctvnews.ca
Sunday, April 19, 2026
