Post-Mortem, Part 1
What Is Happening Here | Canadaland Investigates
Canadaland
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 13 November 2023
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
For over five years, Canadaland has been investigating Thunder Bay, Ontario. Specifically, we have been trying to figure out why there were so many unanswered questions around the deaths of Indigenous people in this one Ontario town.
We have looked at the cops. The schools. The courts. The government. The people in the town itself. But we never looked at the coroners and the forensic pathologists who are a central part of death investigations. And once we started to do so, freedom of information requests and leaked reports pointed to even greater problems with how deaths are investigated, that could span the entire province.
And so we went back to Thunder Bay.
Host: Jesse Brown
Credits: Cherise Seucharan (Reporter), Jon Thompson (Reporter), Ryan McMahon (Reporter), Tristan Capacchione (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Bruce Thorson (Senior Producer), Annette Ejiofor (Managing Editor), Karyn Pugliese (Editor-in-Chief)
Further reading:
- Lawyer says families 'ignored' as Broken Trust final report on death reinvestigations expected within weeks, CBC News, Feb 15, 2022
- Reports on racism and a reckoning for Thunder Bay, TVO Today, Jan 17, 2019
- Ontario coroners looking to unionize over working conditions, upcoming reforms, CBC News, June 14, 2023
- Horwath calls for review of Hamilton forensic pathology unit closure, CBC News, August 23, 2019
- 'Disappointing' response so far to 7 youth inquest recommendations, says Aboriginal Legal Services, CBC News, August 23, 2017
- Thunder Bay TV series, Crave
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, it's Ryan. It's been a while since you've heard from me here, but in a moment we will bring you a brand new Thunder Bay story, post-mortem. |
| 0:08.0 | Building on our work with the first two podcast seasons and then our Thunder Bay TV series, we now have a major step |
| 0:15.3 | forward in our investigation into why so many indigenous lives end violently and without |
| 0:20.4 | explanation in this one Ontario town. |
| 0:24.0 | From the start, our ability to shine a light on all of this came directly from |
| 0:28.1 | listeners like you, supporting Canada Land. |
| 0:31.3 | And today, before sharing this next chapter, I am asking you to become one of the people who |
| 0:36.2 | make investigations like this possible. |
| 0:39.3 | Go to Canada Land.com slash join or click the link in the show notes. You will get ad |
| 0:44.7 | free versions of this series and all of Canada Land's podcasts but most importantly |
| 0:49.9 | you will fuel the discovery and publication of truths this country needs to hear. |
| 0:55.4 | Canada Land is in the final hours of its annual crowdfunding campaign. |
| 1:00.3 | If you want to hear more investigations like this one, now is the time to help. |
| 1:05.0 | Canadaland.com slash join. |
| 1:08.0 | Thanks. A few months back we received an interesting news tip. It was an email from a |
| 1:29.1 | whistleblower. This person was alerting us urgently to huge problems that were going |
| 1:35.8 | unreported that they felt were afflicting the coroner system in Ontario. It's not a system that we've ever looked at before. But as |
| 1:47.0 | we spoke to this source and went through their materials and got deeper and |
| 1:50.6 | deeper into this, we realize that we have been covering this story for years. |
| 1:56.4 | We were just never looking at it this particular way. |
| 1:59.8 | For over five years, Canada Land has been investigating Thunder Bay, Ontario. |
| 2:07.3 | Specifically, we have been trying to figure out why so many indigenous lives end early and violently and mysteriously in this one |
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