The Canadian Press WINNIPEG, MAN-Canada and Manitoba are partnering to launch an alert system that would inform the public when an Indigenous woman or girl goes missing, they announced Friday in Winnipeg, ahead of a national day to mark the crisis. The long-awaited Red Dress Alert system is a bid to prevent deaths and increase safe reunions with loved ones. Statistics Canada concluded in a report last year that the homicide rate for Indigenous women and girls was six times higher than the rate for their non-Indigenous counterparts. A national inquiry concluded five years ago that they are 12 times more likely to go missing or murdered. “In the lead-up to Red Dress Day, we keep those who have been stolen from their communities and this world in our thoughts,

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