Author of the article: Doug Schmidt
Publishing date: May 05, 2021 • May 5, 2021 • 1 minute read • Tina Jacobs, left, executive director of the Can-Am Indian Friendship Centre, and Sheilina John, a volunteer, hold red dresses for Red Dress Day honouring missing and murdered indigenous women and girls, on Wednesday, May 5, 2021. Photo by Dax Melmer /Windsor Star
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Red dresses left to flap in the wind at locations across Windsor on Wednesday were a reminder that the issue of missing and murdered Indigenous girls and women remains a tragic and urgent issue in Canada.
“It’s still an everyday thing there is always someone missing in every province,” said Tina Jacobs, interim executive director of the Can-Am Indian Friendship Centre in Windsor.
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