Grassroots group celebrates one year of soup and support – Winnipeg [Video]

Diane Bousquet ladles out homemade soup into Styrofoam cups, carefully balancing a bun on top. For the past year, she’s done this every weekend with her initiative Warming Souls with Soup.

Volunteers, friends, and community members dropped by Saturday afternoon to eat, sing and reflect on the group’s one-year anniversary. Warming Souls cooks hot meals and delivers hampers to community members across the city, a project Bousquet says began in the wake of tragedy.

“For the last seven plus years, I’ve been journeying back to my roots,” she said, “and along this journey I have started to advocate for the Missing and Murdered Indigenous People. And it brought me to Brady Road Landfill last year.”

The landfill was the site of protests after the provincial Progressive Conservative government stated it would not support a search of the Prairie Green landfill for the remains of two murdered Indigenous women. Jeremy Skibicki, …