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Models in uniquely designed red dresses are taking to the runway in British Columbia this weekend to make a powerful fashion statement about missing and murdered Indigenous women.

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.

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

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

People from around the city gathered at The Forks to honour those who were taken too soon, and remember those who are still missing.

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.

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.

Dozens of posters were held high with the names and pictures of those missing and murdered. Many walking have been personally impacted.

Raymond Cormier, a career criminal and the man police believed killed Tina Fontaine, has reportedly died and “took all the answers with him” said Fontaine’s aunt Thelma Favel.

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.

The Parole Board of Canada has denied day release for a man who beat and sexually assaulted a girl and a woman in separate random attacks in Winnipeg a decade ago. 

The funding, a combined total of $27.5 million over five years, comes in the form of an injection of cash to the Canada Housing Benefit.

The Native Women's Association of Canada has seen its federal funding cut by nearly $50 million to just $10 million, resulting in its staff of 75 being reduced to 30.

The reviews are in, and many organizations across Manitoba are giving the province's 2024 budget a thumbs up — or at least calling it a good start.

'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.'

Canada and Manitoba are launching a pilot alert program — similar to an Amber Alert — that will send out emergency messages when an Indigenous woman or girl goes missing.

Robert Pickton was charged with 26 murders in the deaths of women who disappeared from Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, but only convicted of second-degree murder for six of them.

A special project led by the Edmonton Police Service has positively identified the remains of two Indigenous women who were found dead in the city nearly 50 years ago.

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.