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Prince Albert Police Service: Deputy Chief of Police Announced
Prince Albert, Sask. – The Prince Albert Police Service newest Deputy Chief of Police was announced at City Hall today. Jason Stonechild was officially appointed as Deputy Chief commencing today by Police Chief Jon Bergen. Stonechild served as Acting Deputy Chief in 2018 and on the Service’s Executive Team in the role of Inspector since 2014. […]
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Regina police chief says Indigenous relations have ‘come a long way’ in Saskatchewan – CBC
In wake of report on ‘systemic discrimination’ at two Ontario police services, Evan Bray spoke with Checkup Reports this week that found systemic racism is prevalent at police forces in both Toronto and Thunder Bay, Ont. rings familiar to Evan Bray. The Regina Police Services chief has spent his entire career with the organization. Twenty […]
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Pauktuutit Inuit Women of Canada: Submissions to National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls
On December 11, 2018, the oral submission from Pauktuutit Inuit Women of Canada, AnânauKatiget Tumingit Regional Inuit Women’s Association, Saturviit Inuit Women’s Association of Nunavik, Ottawa Inuit Children’s Centre, and Manitoba Inuit Association was made to the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls. Please click on the links below to read or watch […]
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Found and lost – CBC
Nakuset was separated from her sister Sonya during the Sixties Scoop, but reunited with her as an adult — only to lose her again to suicide December 11, 2018 Nakuset sat across from me in a CBC studio in Montreal, headphones turned up, straining to hear her sister Rose Mary Murray’s voice on the other […]
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Whitstone family and supporters hope for more justice – paNOW
Brydon Whitstone’s family and supporters say they want more justice following the Coroner’s Inquest into his death that concluded Friday at Queen’s Bench Court in Battleford. Whitstone’s mother said the RCMP officer shouldn’t have discharged his gun when dealing with her son. Brydon Whitstone, 22, from Onion Lake First Nation, was fatally shot in an […]
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Sask. has second-highest number of rural domestic homicide victims – CTV News
December 06, 2018 A new report is painting a troubling picture about domestic violence in Canada. It not only shows women or girls make up 76 per cent of victims, but it also highlights who those women most likely are. The multi-year report from the Canadian Domestic Homicide Prevention Initiative looked at data from 2010-2015. It found […]
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Boushie family attend inquest into RCMP fatal shooting of Indigenous man – The Globe and Mail
Family members of an Indigenous man who died after being shot on a Saskatchewan farm are attending an inquest into the fatal shooting of another Indigenous man. The mother and brother of Colten Boushie sat in a Battleford, Sask., courtroom Tuesday to support the family of Brydon Whitstone. Whitstone, who was 22 from Onion Lake […]
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A ‘very chaotic’ few minutes: Sask. Mountie shot Brydon Whitstone because he thought he had a gun – CBC
RCMP Constable Jerry Abbott said he yelled Whitstone had a gun, despite never seeing one Dec 06, 2018 * This story is based on statements given during this week’s coroner’s inquest, which is not a criminal trial. Soon after shooting Brydon Whitstone and then trying to revive the 22 year old, North Battleford RCMP patrol […]
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5 questions hanging over this week’s inquest into the fatal RCMP shooting of Brydon Whitstone – CBC
1-week coroner’s inquest begins Monday in Battleford Nov 29, 2018 The family of a Saskatchewan man who was shot and killed by an RCMP officer will finally learn details about what led to their son’s death during a coroner’s inquest this week. An RCMP officer in North Battleford fatally shot 22-year-old Brydon Whitstone of Onion […]
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Parenting discussed at recent drug and gang forum – The Battlefords News-Optimist
November 29, 2018 A drug and gang forum spearheaded by Jacob Pete, a Little Pine First Nation elder, was held Nov. 22 and 23 at the Dekker Centre in North Battleford. The forum’s title is Reclaiming Miyopimatisiwin: What gets in the way? (Miyopimatisiwin translates as “the good life.”) Pete says there is gang and drug […]
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