Human rights complaint filed against city over refusal to search landfills [Video]

Family members of three slain Indigenous women have filed a human rights complaint over the city’s refusal to search Brady Road and Prairie Green Landfills, saying not enough was done to bring home their remains.

It’s been more than a decade since Tanya Nepinak was last seen alive. Her remains are believed to be somewhere in the Brady Landfill, but have never been found.

“We need justice,” Nepinak’s aunt Sue Caribou told CTV News.

In 2012, Winnipeg Police charged Shawn Lamb in Nepinak’s death, but those charges were later stayed. Lamb pleaded guilty in the deaths of two other women, but denied killing Nepinak. The charges in her case were stayed.

Caribou said police spent les than a week searching the landfill for her niece’s remains.

“To tell you the truth, I don’t think they take any of the missing and murdered seriously,” she said.

Caribou has filed a human …