First Metropolitan United Church will hold a non-denominational service to honour women and others who have died at the hands of gender-based violence.
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The service will also remember murdered and missing Indigenous girls and women killed in Ukraine.
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The service, which is inter-faith and inclusive, will begin at 5 p.m. on Dec. 6.
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