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NICOLE BUFFIE / FREE PRESS From left: Federal minister of northern and arctic affairs Rebecca Chartrand, Manitoba families minister Nahanni Fontaine, Anita Campbell, a spokeswoman for the Infinity Women Secretariat, housing, addictions and homelessness minister Bernadette Smith, Manitoba Metis Federation vice-president Frances Chartrand and MMF energy and infrastructure minister Jack Park virtually turn sod on a new, 10-bed transitional facility for women fleeing domestic abuse. The groundbreaking was held at a different location than the project’s location to protect future tenants of the building.