Winnipeg's Brady Road landfill reopens after police investigation

The City of Winnipeg reopened the Brady Road Landfill Monday, one week after it was closed for a police investigation after a woman's body was found at the site.

Staff at the city's Brady Road Resource Management Facility discovered remains there lastMonday afternoon, police said last week.Policesaid at that point they considered the circumstances around her death suspicious, buthadn't classified it as a homicide.

The 33-year-old woman was identified as Linda Beardy,a member of Lake St. Martin First Nation and a mother of four.

Surveillance video showed Beardy climbing into a commercial garbage bin on the day her body was found. She was not seen getting out before the bin was emptied by a garbage truck and taken to the dump,Winnipeg Police Service Chief Danny Smyth said at a Thursday news conference.

An autopsy later confirmed she sustained injuries consistent with what would result from being stuck inside a garbage bin as it was handled by a truck,Smyth said Thursday.

Smyth said investigators remain open to pursuing any other information that might come in from the public about Beardy's activity before she was seen getting into thebin, but "right now there is no evidence to support homicide."

"I'll sum up this way: this is a tragedy," Smyth said on Thursday. "It's garnered a lot of attention and concern across the country. And investigators and WPS personnel, they've worked around the clock to try to find some answers here."

A demonstration was held outside the policeheadquarters over the weekend.

Protesters have called for further investigation into Beardy's death, as well as further searches at the site for the bodies of other missing Indigenous women.