Demonstrators briefly pushed and shoved with security at the entrance to a World Police and Fire Games venue in Winnipeg Sunday night following a rally where Indigenous leaders and grieving family members continued to press the government to search landfills for the remains of homicide victims.
About 200 people marched from the Oodena Circle — an Indigenous gathering space at The Forks in the city’s downtown — to the games’ athletes village. They chanted “bring them home” and “search the landfill” as they moved through the national historic site.
Once at the games venue, a small group of demonstrators pressed themselves against the front entrance