PETERS – Landfill search for Indigenous women’s remains worth honest effort

THE FRAUGHT RELATIONSHIP between Canada’s Indigenous people and this nation’s police reached another new low this week.

Winnipeg’s police service revealed that the remains of two of the four victims of an alleged serial killer — both Indigenous women — are believed to be in a landfill just outside of Winnipeg.

However, the department has decided the job of searching the landfill to actually find those remains and return them to their families is just too onerous.

In fact, Winnipeg Police made that decision in June, but are only speaking publicly about it now.

It’s very difficult for settler governments and law enforcement agencies to be received in good faith when time and time again, they offer no respect to the final resting places of Indigenous people.

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James Peters is the radio anchor at CFJC, coming to Kamloops in 2006. He anchors the afternoon news on B-100 and 98.3 CIFM, and contributes weekly editorials to the CFJC Evening News. He tweets regularly @Jamloops.