Winnipeg Free Press: AFN grand chief calls for inquiry into decision to not search landfill

Brandon Trask, an assistant professor of law at the University of Manitoba, said any decision about an inquiry should pay significant sensitivity and attention to the desires of the families and Indigenous community members.

“As a legal scholar, I am very concerned about how issues pertaining to the investigation, including the landfill search, ended up being so politicized,” he said.

Fontaine said the identification of Shingoose as Mashkode Bizhiki’ikwe, or any type of news involving MMIWG2S+, elicits raw emotion and a spectrum of emotion, such as relief or anger.

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