What Linda Beardy needed was love; an apathetic society offered a trash bin

By Winnipeg Free Press | Opinion | April 14th 2023

Winnipeg police Chief Danny Smyth told a news conference that investigators have proof Linda Mary Beardy died after climbing into a refuse bin and there was no evidence of “foul play.” FACEBOOK

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Linda Beardy was 33 years old, a mother, and the youngest of five sisters. Her body was found in Winnipeg’s only active landfill last week.

And while her case is not a homicide, it makes it no less tragic, no less a reflection of how this country has long treated Indigenous women and girls.

Winnipeg Free Press columnist Niigaan Sinclair writes on how to bring justice to the issue of murdered and missing Indigenous women, girls, and two-spirit/queer people.

To read more of this column, click here.

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April 14th 2023

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Betsy Cornwell |

Despair is a deadly sin so they say. What does humanity offer to lift that unbearable weight? How is it that our indigenous people, especially the females succumb to it? What has the settler society done to so debase our original inhabitants, that they can no longer bear to live with us? Indeed, not only can they not adapt to us, but throughout history we have never truly given them the chance to adapt. If they would not be our slaves, and they would not. They would not be.