Red cloths hung outside YWCA (Photo courtesy Nina Cordell).

Yesterday was Canada’s National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence against Women.

To mark the date, Thompson YWCA is hanging 25 red cloths around the City today. Women’s Programs Coordinator Nina Cordell says the cloths are a ceremonial offering:

"In the Indigenous culture we offer cloth as a physical representation, with specific intentions and it can be a wide range of things, you know sometimes you honour your spirit name or you honour a gift you’ve been given and in  this case we are honouring memories of women".

14 cloths represent each of the women who lost their lives in the 1989 Montreal Massacre at Ecole Polytechnique, 10 cloths represent the 10 women murdered in Manitoba this year, and the last cloth is for the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women across Canada.

(Photo courtesy Nina Cordell).