Battlefords hosts MMIW March on Valentine’s
On a day where love is celebrated, roughly 40 people marched through North Battleford for the missing and murdered Indigenous women across Canada.
Drummers played and sang through the downtown on Valentine’s Day as people honored their lost loved ones.
It is an issue that hits close to home for the event’s organizer, Keegan Beauchene, whose cousin Courtney Johnstone was murdered in Grande Prairie in 2014.
“Courtney was a beautiful person who was outgoing, laughed all the time and told stories that were simply awesome,” he said in a speech during the march. “I remember she hated her blonde hair, and she would dye it a darker colour because she was proud to be Indigenous.”