Province hires MMIWG advocate Cambria Harris to work as special assistant on reconciliation

ManitobaCambria Harris, who was was one of the most prominent voices pushing for a landfill search for the remains of her mother, Morgan Harris, and those of Marcedes Myran, will join Manitoba’s Finance Department as a special assistant, helping support work within the Indigenous reconciliation portfolio, a government spokesperson says.Harris advocated for landfill search for remains of her mother, Morgan Harris, and Marcedes MyranArturo Chang · CBC News · Posted: Oct 23, 2025 9:11 PM EDT | Last Updated: 1 hour agoListen to this articleEstimated 2 minutesCambria Harris address a crowd gathered outside the province’s legislative building in 2024. The 24-year-old will be joining the Manitoba’s finance department as a special assistant, a ministerial spokesperson said in an email Thursday. (Jeff Stapleton/CBC)Cambria Harris, a prominent advocate for missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls, has a new job in Manitoba’s provincial government focusing on reconciliation, the province says.The 24-year-old will be joining Manitoba’s Finance Department as a special assistant, a ministerial spokesperson confirmed in an email Thursday. Her hiring was reported in an Oct. 17 order in council.Harris is daughter of Morgan Harris, one of four First Nations women murdered in Winnipeg by a serial killer in 2022.Cambria Harris was was one of the most prominent voices pushing for the search of the Prairie Green landfill, north of Winnipeg, for the remains of her mother and those of Marcedes Myran, one of Jeremy Skibicki’s other victims.Winnipeg police and the previous Progressive Conservative government both rejected searching the landfill, citing logistical and safety challenges. The PCs ran ads promoting their decision during the 2023 election.After winning that election, the NDP launched the search in December 2024. The women’s partial remains were found within a few months. The PCs issued an official apology to the families in the aftermath of the discovery.Skibicki was convicted in July 2024 of four counts of first-degree murder in the killings of Morgan Harris and Myran — both of whom were from Long Plain First Nation — Rebecca Contois, a member of O-Chi-Chak-Ko-Sipi First Nation, and Ashlee Shingoose, who was from St. Theresa Point Anisininew Nation. Shingoose’s remains are believed to still be at Winnipeg’s Brady Road landfill. The province has said it will conduct a search there.The ministerial spokesperson said Cambria will help support work within the Indigenous Reconciliation Secretariat, which develops policies and research on reconciliation and supported the landfill search.The Finance Department is responsible for the secretariat because its work goes across multiple government departments, the province said.With files from Lauren Scott