Post-Mortem, Part 2 | Thunder Bay
What Is Happening Here | Canadaland Investigates
Canadaland
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 20 November 2023
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Ryan McMahon and Jon Thompson team up with Cherise Seucharan for the conclusion to Post Mortem, a two-episode dive into the connection between the police, the coroners, and the canary in a coal mine for death investigations across the province.
Host: Jesse Brown
Credits: Jon Thompson (Reporter), Cherise Seucharan (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:
- Reinvestigation into nine Indigenous deaths to focus on ‘finding the truth’ — TBNewswatch, October 16, 2019
- 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
- 2 police officers step on handcuffed man's back as doctor watches at First Nation nursing station — CBC News, Jul 10, 2017
- Thunder Bay Police Board chair apologizes to families after report urges more death reinvestigations — CBC News, March 16, 2022
- Thunder Bay TV series, Crave
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| 0:00.0 | Last week we brought you part one of Thunder Bay Post Mortem. |
| 0:18.8 | If you have not heard that, go back and listen to it |
| 0:21.0 | before listening to Part 2, |
| 0:23.1 | which is going to follow in a moment. |
| 0:25.0 | And a quick warning, |
| 0:26.2 | this episode deals with graphic discussions |
| 0:29.8 | of violence against indigenous people |
| 0:32.4 | and indigenous youth. |
| 0:34.7 | Wait for it. |
| 0:37.4 | Music youth. Wait for it. |
| 0:50.9 | This episode is brought to you by Evan Doyle, Donald McAvoy, Jess Brown, Aaron Townsend, |
| 0:56.9 | Faye Kiewitz, Caroline Toth, Maria Alisa Maltese, and Dia. |
| 1:01.5 | My name's Dia, and I'm a student from Toronto who just moved to Vancouver. I support Candeland because I got hooked on commons and continued because of the coverage on important topics |
| 1:06.1 | like Ferry Creek and the disease in New Brunswick that I can't get anywhere else. I tell |
| 1:10.7 | literally everyone |
| 1:11.4 | about Candeland and I've recruited many supporters, including my lovely mom. Hey, Mom, love you. |
| 1:20.6 | There aren't a lot of people like Kona Williams. Well, thanks for having me. Can I just pause for |
| 1:25.9 | one second because I got the dogs and they're |
| 1:27.6 | freaking out about. I think there might be a bear. Just give me a second. |
| 1:31.4 | It's not just about where she lives. In Sudbury, Ontario. |
| 1:35.1 | Oh, my goodness. Yeah, it wasn't the bear. There was actually a bear that had eaten some of my |
| 1:39.7 | ducks and it had come back. And before Habie could go get the rifle, I was so enraged that I jumped |
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