{"id":648604,"date":"2026-05-05T04:25:37","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T04:25:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/648604\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T04:25:37","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T04:25:37","slug":"city-of-edmonton-mayor-speaks-on-importance-of-red-dress-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/648604\/","title":{"rendered":"City of Edmonton Mayor Speaks on Importance of Red Dress Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sc-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/img-5329.jpg\" alt=\"Red Dress Day march inside Churchill Square (Photo Credits - Daniel Barker-Tremblay\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Red Dress Day march inside Churchill Square (Photo Credits &#8211; Daniel Barker-Tremblay<\/p>\n<p>On May 5, Red Dress Day is a national day of awareness and remembrance for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women &amp; Girls, with many walks, workshops and gathering happening across the province of Alberta and Canada.<\/p>\n<p>City of Edmonton Mayor Andrew Knack spoke with Raven Radio Network on acknowledging Red Dress Day, urging the community to stand in solidarity with families of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and Two-Spirited people, while continuing to raise awareness and push for meaningful change.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/media-cdn.socastsrm.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/3139\/files\/2026\/05\/edmonton-mayor-red-dress-day-audio-clip.mp3\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/media-cdn.socastsrm.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/3139\/files\/2026\/05\/edmonton-mayor-red-dress-day-audio-clip.mp3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>For all Red Dress Day events, visit our events calendar\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ravenradio.ca\/events\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Red Dress Day march inside Churchill Square (Photo Credits &#8211; Daniel Barker-Tremblay On May 5, Red Dress Day&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":648605,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194294],"tags":[197325,901,32920,49,2798,197326,48,32921,23752,32919,32918,1893,197324,197323,174757],"class_list":["post-648604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-edmonton","tag-89-3","tag-alberta","tag-alberta-radio","tag-ca","tag-calgary","tag-calgary-radio","tag-canada","tag-canada-radio","tag-edmonton","tag-edmonton-radio","tag-indigenous","tag-radio","tag-raven-radio-88-1","tag-raven-radio-network","tag-yeg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=648604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648604\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/648605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=648604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=648604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=648604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}