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Angela Jaime, University of Saskatchewan Indigenous Engagement Vice-Provost said Sunday is a day of observance and education. 

Red Dress Day events, such as a memorial walk, kicked off on Friday in Regina and Saskatoon in honour of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls.

Families Minister Nahanni Fontaine says the $15-million endowment fund will directly support the families of missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls and two-spirit.

Indigenous women, girls and LGBTQ peoples are six times more likely to be murdered than their non-Indigenous counterparts, the First Nations Leadership Council said.

At Saskatchewan Polytechnic campus, Gallagher opened up to students regarding challenges surrounding Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls and missing Indigenous people.

Now in its 33rd year, the Women's Memorial March takes place annually on Valentine's Day starting at the corner of Main and East Hastings in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside.

A memorial march on Wednesday aimed to draw attention to missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls, trans, and two-spirited people across Quebec, and the rest of Canada.

While a landfill search for a woman in Saskatoon moves forward, a search of a Manitoban landfill for three Indigenous women has yet to be given a timeline.

Victoria's Stolen Sisters Memorial March is in its 14th year, and this year will take place on Saturday, Feb. 10. It always maintains the same message — uplifting families.

Alberta-based MMIP Investigations Ltd. provides zero cost private investigator work, family advocates and healing support to families of missing and murdered Indigenous people.

'We know that every day we wait, another woman, girl or two-spirit person goes missing. We cannot support that. We need action now. We need a Red Dress (Alert) now.'

Heather Strongarm of Fishing Lake, Sask., is making a big name for herself in the fashion industry as a young up and coming model.

Pickton, now in his 70s, was charged with 26 murders in the deaths of women who disappeared from Vancouver's Downtown Eastside but only convicted in six of the killings.

Indigenous women are 400 per cent more likely go missing and when they do, the search is often hampered by police apathy. That's where Mukwa Bear comes in.

Specialty license plates in support of MMIWG2S are now available for purchase, with some of the money from the sale of the plates expected to be donated to a charity.

Ottawa has begun consultations on a public alert system for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls, following support for a motion by Winnipeg MP Leah Gazan.

In November, after Chelsey Heron's remains were found, her mother Pam Heron described her daughter as "loved cared for deeply by her family, friends and community."

Police say an investigation into Helen Carpenter's death in Attawapiskat was renewed in late 2019 after a national inquiry into MMIWG published its final report.

People gathered for Sisters in Spirit Day: a commemorative evening to remember the lives of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls.

On the Sisters In Spirit National Day of Action dedicated to MMIWG, a Anishinaabe Ojibway man held a haircutting ceremony to honour the memory of lost loved ones.