Thunder Bay

Post-Mortem, Part 2

Mon, 20 Nov 2023 08:05:00 GMT

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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Post-Mortem, Part 1

Mon, 13 Nov 2023 08:05:00 GMT

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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Criminally Responsible

Tue, 15 Dec 2020 08:05:00 GMT

The verdict arrives in the trial that everyone’s talking about. Can there be justice? As Thunder Bay grapples with the truth about itself, people are still dying. Kids are still dying.

So where do we go from here?

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It Happens Because You're Indigenous

Mon, 30 Nov 2020 08:05:00 GMT

When a system is broken, you can work outside of it to create something new, or you can try to change it from within. But what happens when you need the system?

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CORRECTION: An earlier edit of this episode presented an incomplete criticism of the editorial focus of CBC Thunder Bay. Apologies to Michael Dick and his team for this oversight.

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A Post-Truth Town

Mon, 16 Nov 2020 08:05:00 GMT

It’s infamous as the homicide and hate crime capital of Canada. And now, Thunder Bay has been officially diagnosed as racist.

But so what? Does knowing this mean that anything will change?

Welcome to Canada's first post-truth town.

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Introducing: Return to Thunder Bay

Sun, 18 Oct 2020 07:06:00 GMT

New stories from Thunder Bay.

Original artwork by Blake Angeconeb and Michah Dowbak.

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Burners

Sun, 25 Nov 2018 08:05:00 GMT

What if Thunder Bay isn't broken?

What if it's working just as it's supposed to?

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The Ruthless Game

Mon, 12 Nov 2018 08:05:00 GMT

Agnew Johnston was a lawyer who represented the state against criminals. But he was a criminal himself, paying underage girls for sex. His defence? Everybody in Thunder Bay is doing it, so why are you picking on me? The story of a case that implicated Thunder Bay's elite.

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Deathly Low Priority

Sun, 28 Oct 2018 07:05:00 GMT

Nine teenagers died. There is evidence of foul play. There are suspects. There are motives. There have even been confessions. But nobody has ever been charged. In a town with no consequences, it will happen again.

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Clowns

Tue, 23 Oct 2018 07:15:00 GMT

A dark, grainy, cellphone video leads to criminal charges against the mayor, his wife, the chief of police, and a multimillionaire lawyer turned convicted sex offender, whose wife disappeared years ago.

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There Is A Town In North Ontario

Mon, 22 Oct 2018 07:10:00 GMT

Locals call it Murder Bay.

It might be the most dangerous city for Indigenous youth in the world. But to others, it's their white nirvana.

Host Ryan McMahon wants to know - not who killed all those kids, but what killed them. This is Thunder Bay.

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Introducing: Thunder Bay

Fri, 12 Oct 2018 07:05:00 GMT

The highest homicide and hate crime rates in the country. A mayor charged with extortion. A police chief who faced trial for obstruction of justice. Nine tragic deaths of Indigenous high schoolers. Why does it all happen here?

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