By Dave Baxter Local Journalism Initiative Reporter Indigenous officials are working on a plan to bring a monument that would honour missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls to the city of Thompson, and they are asking Thompson city council to get on board to help them to cover some of the costs.   During an April 17 Thompson city council meeting in the northern Manitoba city, a delegation from Manitoba Keewatinowi Okimakanak (MKO) spoke to members of council, and asked for a number of contributions to help MKO erect the planned monument in Thompson.   MKO has been working on plans and designs for the monument for more than a year, and when plans were first announced, officials said it would be a place in northern Manitoba where families

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