Local men fight to hold MMIW hearing in Northern Sask
Two men from Prince Albert are prepared to go the distance to help families in northern Saskatchewan coping with the loss of a loved one.
Conrad Burns and Pernell Ballantyne will walk from Saskatoon to Prince Albert, to spotlight the need for the inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigneous Women (MMIW) to hold a hearing in northern Saskatchewan.
Burns said he got the idea for the campaign after attending the MMIW inquiry in Saskatoon.
“Going down there I realized a lot of [the northern families] weren’t participating and I talked to them and they said they didn’t have the opportunity, the inquiry didn’t have enough time for them to be heard,” Burns said.