15 episodes
Thunder Bay Canadaland Investigates
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4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
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The highest homicide rate in the country. A mayor and his wife charged with extortion. A police chief put on trial for obstruction of justice. Nine tragic deaths of Indigenous teenagers. Why does it all happen here?
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Post-Mortem, Part 1
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, 2022Reports on racism and a reckoning for Thunder Bay, TVO Today, Jan 17, 2019Ontario coroners looking to unionize over working conditions, upcoming reforms, CBC News, June 14, 2023Horwath 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, 2017Thunder Bay TV series, Crave
Additional music by Audio Network
Sponsors: Douglas, Communauto, Indochino
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Post-Mortem, Part 2
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, 2019Lawyer says families 'ignored' as Broken Trust final report on death reinvestigations expected within weeks — CBC News, Feb 15, 2022Reports on racism and a reckoning for Thunder Bay — TVO Today, Jan 17, 20192 police officers step on handcuffed man's back as doctor watches at First Nation nursing station — CBC News, Jul 10, 2017Thunder Bay Police Board chair apologizes to families after report urges more death reinvestigations — CBC News, March 16, 2022Thunder Bay TV series, Crave
Additional music by Audio Network
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Return to Thunder Bay - A Post-Truth Town
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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Return to Thunder Bay - It Happens Because You're Indigenous
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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This episode is brought to you by Missing From the Village and HelloFresh.
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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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Return to Thunder Bay - Criminally Responsible
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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Trailer: Return to Thunder Bay
New stories from Thunder Bay. Coming November, 2020.
Original artwork by Blake Angeconeb and Michah Dowbak.
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Customer Reviews
Outstanding
An absolute must listen, an essential for all non-Native inhabitants of the Americas. Polished and important podcast.
Powerful
This podcast is equally as captivating as it is powerful. The writing behind the spoken word is incredibly eloquent, masterfully conveying the atrocities First Nations people experience not only in Thunder Bay, but across Canada (arguably native people globally). A must listen
Makes me wonder…
…why we’re focusing on the rights of trans people (they’ve got rights), when the Highway of Tears, The Starlight Tours, the bodies of children, the unclean drinking water. We need to get our priorities straight as a nation. Question everything, elitists run the show, and they don’t care about any one of us, unless you’re one of them. Native rights to be truly respected is long, long long overdue. What an embarrassment as a Canadian.