WINNIPEG – Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew says the effort to find the remains of two slain First Nations women in a landfill is on track and excavation in the target area is set to start in December.
Kinew says excavation of a top layer of material is underway, buildings are being constructed, and a line carrying electricity is complete.
Police believe the remains of Morgan Harris and Marcedes Myran were sent to the Prairie Green Landfill north of Winnipeg in May 2022.
Jeremy Skibicki admitted to killing Harris, Myran and two other Indigenous women and putting their remains in garbage bins.
The remains of Rebecca Contois were found in a different landfill and an unidentified woman, who an Indigenous grassroots community named Buffalo Woman, has not been located.
Police and the former Progressive Conservative government rejected calls to search the Prairie Green landfill, partly because of asbestos and toxic material.
The NDP government, elected last year, committed $20 million to the search, matching a federal commitment.
