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Thunder Bay police investigating teen’s death as homicide – Sudbury.com
The body of Braiden Jacob was found in Chapples Park on Sunday THUNDER BAY — The death of 17-year-old Braiden Jacob is being investigated as a homicide. The Thunder Bay Police Service on Thursday confirmed they believe the Webequie First Nation teen, whose body was found at Chapples Park on Sunday, was the victim of […]
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Treatment centre for First Nations people facing addictions destroyed by fire: OPP – CBC
Dec 14, 2018 The Native Horizons Treatment Centre in the New Credit First Nation, police say, has been destroyed by fire. Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) say late Thursday night the OPP, Haldimand County Fire Services, Six Nations Fire Services, Haldimand County paramedics and Six Nations paramedics were called to the Native Horizons Treatment Centre on […]
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New report shows health problems among Grassy Narrows youth and mothers; calls for urgent action – Daily Miner and News
December 14, 2018 The mercury dumped in the English-Wabigoon river system by a nearby paper mill in the 1960s and 70s is still having serious ill effects on the health of young people and mothers on Asubpeeschoseewagong Netum Anishinabek (Grassy Narrows First Nation), a new report finds. The second part of the Asubpeeschoseewagong Netum Anishinabek […]
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‘It’s going to reopen again’: Elder told mother of Kyle Morrisseau that his story wasn’t over – APTN News
December 13, 2018 The mother of Kyle Morrisseau says she was told by an Elder when her son died nine years ago that his case would eventually be reopened. “He was just talking to me, just talking to me and then he says, ‘in the future from now on then in the future it’s not […]
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Sault university expands business programming – Northern Ontario Business
School of Business and Economics launched last July When Algoma University announced in July it was establishing a School of Business and Economics, faculty members were unprepared for just how popular its new programming would be. During the first intake of students this past September, executive director Nadine Landon was hopeful to enrol 20 post-graduate […]
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Indigenous teen’s death in Thunder Bay ruled a homicide – Globalnews.ca
December 14, 2018 THUNDER BAY, Ont. – Police say the death of an Indigenous teen whose body was found in a Thunder Bay, Ont., park is being treated as a homicide. Thunder Bay police say a passerby discovered 17-year-old Braiden Jacob around 11:30 a.m. on Sunday in Chapples Park. Police have revealed few details about […]
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How Thunder Bay police failed Indigenous people – CBC
“When the agency that’s supposed to protect you is also an agency that you fear, there is really little place for you to find shelter,” says Jorge Barrera, a reporter with CBC’s Indigenous Unit, in relation to a disturbing new report about the Thunder Bay Police Service. Ontario’s police watchdog Gerry McNeilly says “systemic racism” […]
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Review of Thunder Bay Police Service finds ‘systemic racism’ at institutional level – Sudbury.com
The Office of the Independent Police Review Director report says nine cases involving Indigenous deaths should be reinvestigated THUNDER BAY – The Office of the Independent Police Review Director has found that systemic racism exists at an institutional level at the Thunder Bay Police Service. “Our detailed review of cases involving sudden deaths of Indigenous […]
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Hundreds protest TransCanada in Toronto in solidarity with Unist’ot’en – rabble.ca
December 12, 2018 On December 10, International Human Rights Day, at the same time as the Unist’ot’en people began a fight in British Columbia’s courts against TransCanada’s injunction, hundreds gathered in Toronto in solidarity to protest at TransCanada’s office. The Toronto protest coincided with the start of a hearing in Prince George in which TransCanada […]
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These are the death probes police watchdog wants reopened – The Star
Dec. 12, 2018 They were police investigations beset with problems, probes into the deaths of Indigenous people so deficient they must be reopened, according to a highly critical police watchdog report released Wednesday. Investigators from the Thunder Bay police had “misguided” approaches to some cases. They reached “premature conclusions” about how someone died. Inexperienced officers […]
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