Global Courant
Protesters blocking the entrance to the Brady Road dump have agreed to end their blockade after the city issued an order to leave on Monday.
The City of Winnipeg’s top administrative officer, Michael Jack, sent an email Friday to Mayor Scott Gillingham and city council members saying he had issued a evacuation order to those blocking the roadway.
They were told to leave at noon on Monday.
“The blockade is a violation of both city ordinances and provisions of provincial law, and puts the city at risk of violating environmental permit requirements,” the email said.
“We have determined that these actions are an emergency for the health and safety of Winnipeg residents and facility users.”
Protesters blocked the entrance to the Brady Road dump on Thursday afternoon after the Manitoba government announced it would not support a search of the Prairie Green dump north of Winnipeg for the remains of two Indigenous women.
The city announced that the Brady Road landfill was closed Friday morning due to the blockade.
Joseph Munro, who was involved in the protest on a service road near the landfill, told CBC in a statement that the blockade will be lifted before the city’s deadline.
“It was agreed to close Ethan Boyer Way for a few days to send a message to the Prime Minister that her response was unacceptable,” Munro said.
“We didn’t want to close Brady Landfill. There is a back entrance that people can use. They decided to close the landfill,” he added.
A blockade also closed off the Brady Road landfill from December 11 to January 6, ultimately costing the city just over $1.5 million dollars.
He added that he and his group, called Camp Morgan, who have been on site at the landfill since December to raise awareness of the issue of murdered and missing Indigenous women, do not believe the Prime Minister will even launch the feasibility study for the Prairie Green has read. landfill in completion.
In a statement Thursday, a government spokesman wrote that Prime Minister Stefanson had been briefed, read through and was “familiar” with the full report, responding to a CBC question as to whether she had read it.
Camp Morgan has been present at the Brady Landfill for more than seven months in protest at Winnipeg Police Department’s investigation of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls after police found partial remains of Rebecca Contois in June city-owned landfill. .
Jeremy Skibicki is charged with first-degree murder in the deaths of Contois and three other women, including Morgan Harries and Marcedes Myran, whose remains police say ended up in the Prairie Green landfill. The location of the fourth victim, known as Mashkode Bizhiki’ikwe or Buffalo Woman, is unknown.
