Post-Mortem, Part 2
What Is Happening Here | Canadaland Investigates
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4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 20 November 2023
⏱️ 37 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 Mortim. If you have not heard |
| 0:19.7 | that go back and listen to it before listening to part two, which is going to follow in a moment. |
| 0:25.2 | And a quick warning, this episode deals with graphic discussions of violence against |
| 0:31.5 | indigenous people and indigenous youth. |
| 0:34.0 | Wait for it. This episode is brought to you by Evan Doyle, Donald McAvoy, Jess Brown, |
| 0:50.0 | Aaron Townsend, Fay Kewitz, Caroline Toth, Maria Alisa Maltese, and Dia. |
| 0:57.0 | My name is Dia and I'm a student from Toronto who just moved to Vancouver. |
| 1:01.0 | I support Candleland because I got hooked on Commons and continued because of the coverage |
| 1:05.1 | on important topics like Ferry Creek and the Disease of New Brunswick that I can't get anywhere else. |
| 1:10.1 | I tell literally everyone about Candleand and I've recruited many supporters including my lovely mom. Hey mom love you. |
| 1:20.8 | There aren't a lot of people like Kona Williams. |
| 1:24.0 | Well, thanks for having me. |
| 1:25.0 | Can I just pause for one second because I got the dogs and they're freaking out about? |
| 1:29.0 | I think there might be a bear. |
| 1:31.0 | Just give me a second. It's not just about where she lives, in Sudbury, Ontario. |
| 1:35.2 | Oh my goodness, yeah, it wasn't the bear. |
| 1:37.6 | There was actually a bear that had eaten some of my ducks, |
| 1:40.6 | and it had come back, and before having go get the rifle I was like so enraged that I |
| 1:46.6 | jumped off the front porch and chased that bear all the way back to the bush. |
| 1:49.5 | He was not impressed. It's not even that she sometimes decides to chase down bears. |
| 1:58.0 | It's that when she started working in 2016, |
| 2:01.0 | she was the only indigenous forensic pathologist in Canada. |
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