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Pancake breakfast raises awareness, funds for MMIW

Santa, Minnie Mouse, Winnipeg police and First Nations chiefs joined forces Thursday in Winnipeg to serve pancakes and raise money for MMIW.
Winnipeg police Chief Danny Smyth, Manitoba Keewatinowi Okimakanak Grand Chief Sheila North Wilson and Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs Grand Chief Derek Nepinak sit together at Thursday's pancake breakfast. (Meaghan Ketcheson/CBC)

Santa, Minnie Mouse, Winnipeg police and First Nations chiefs joined forces Thursday in Winnipeg to serve pancakes and raise money for MMIW.

The Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs is hosting its second annualOur Lives Are Sacredpancake breakfast from7:30 a.m. until 11:30 a.m. at the Indian andMtisFriendship Centre.

The event, in partnership with the Winnipeg Police Service, raises money fromsponsors and a silent auction.

The funds are then donated to the Families First Foundation,an organization that helps the families of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls.

Members of the Winnipeg Police Service helped serve up and hand out the pancake breakfast on Thursday. (Meaghan Ketcheson/CBC)
The Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs hosted its second annual Our Lives Are Sacred pancake breakfast at the Indian and Mtis Friendship Centre. (Meaghan Ketcheson/CBC)