Crowds turn out for Regina Women’s March despite frigid temperatures

Frigid temperatures didn’t deter crowds from coming retired for Regina’s ninth yearly Women’s March.

Regina joined cities crossed North America successful hosting the event, which is aimed astatine pressing governments to amended women’s quality rights successful areas ranging from health-care betterment to reproductive rights to LGBTQ2 and radical equality.

Despite utmost acold and forecast lows nether -30 C, scores of radical joined the march, which walked from Regina’s Cathedral neighbourhood to downtown.

“Since 2017, this iteration of the women’s question arsenic portion of the Women’s March has been active. It started successful Washington and past successful Regina was progressive (since) 2018,” Women’s March assemblage unpaid Krystal Kolodziejak told Global News.

“We’ve been 1 of the much progressive locations that continues to march each twelvemonth and bring consciousness to the issues that are impacting women and gender-diverse radical successful Regina and Saskatchewan.”

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Kolodziejak said organizers decided to big the march successful January again pursuing Donald Trump’s re-election arsenic U.S. president.

“We wanted to beryllium determination successful solidarity with the marches successful the U.S., to beryllium capable to amusement our enactment fixed the changes they are going done and knowing that that tin interaction Canadians arsenic well,” she said.

Organizers had moved the lawsuit to March to coincide with International Women’s Day successful caller years.

Crowds besides turned retired for a Women’s March successful Saskatoon connected Saturday, walking from the WWCA Saskatoon to City Hospital and back.