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Hundreds formed a ring around drummers and singers in the middle of Portage Avenue and Main Street in Winnipeg Friday evening to honour Linda Beardy after the mother of four was found dead in a city landfill earlier this week.
Linda Beardy's sister is calling for an independent investigation into her death. She also plans to file a formal complaint against the Winnipeg Police Service for the way officers are treating this case. Beardy is the 33-year-old First Nations woman whose body was found in a city landfill earlier this week.
The leader of a First Nations advocacy group wants to see the Winnipeg landfill where the remains of two Indigenous women were found permanently shut down.
The family of a woman whose body was found in a Winnipeg landfill this week are remembering 33-year-old Linda Beardy as a devoted mother and auntie with a "contagious laugh that filled any room she was in."