'She didn't deserve that': Heartbroken mother speaks at vigil for Rebecca Contois

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Family members from as far as Brandon, friends and members of the community turned out to remember the life of Rebecca Contois and to support her grieving mom at a vigil Wednesday evening. 

It was a day after Winnipeg police confirmed that human remains found at the Brady Road landfill belonged to the 24-year-old woman. 

"My heart's broken … I miss her," said Rebecca's mother, Maureen Contois. 

"She was my daughter, she didn't deserve that," she said. 

Contois was a member of Crane River First Nation and grew up in Winnipeg.

The call to remember other missing and murdered Indigenous women was echoed by those present. 

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Ojibwe grandmother Geraldine (Gramma) Shingoose, was one of the first to speak. 

She spoke about the sacredness of women and in relation to Rebecca's death, she said "it's a sacred law that was broken." She encouraged everyone present to remember that there is spiritual justice. 

"Hurting and  and harming our women is not OK. It's going on too long," said Shingoose. 

She said as many as five Indigenous women have gone missing within the last month and a half. 

Many of those those gathered to support the family know what it's like because they also have lost daughters, sisters and friends, Shingoose said.

"There have been so many vigils," she said, while the those gathered listened in silence.