A lawyer says families are being left in the dark about the final report on reinvestigations of the deaths of Indigenous people in northwestern Ontario. The report, which is expected to be released within weeks, will recommend that more deaths be investigated again and a new systemic review be launched.
The report was called for by the chief coroner of Ontario due to potential conflicts of interest among the executive governance committee overseeing the reinvestigations, and could include recommendations for those on the committee
The Special Investigations Unit was contacted by the Office of the Chief Coroner to investigate the circumstances surrounding the 2015 death of Aaron Loon, who is part of the OIPRD recommendation to reinvestigate nine sudden deaths involving Indigenous people.
The Office of the Independent Police Review Board handed down 44 recommendations to the Thunder Bay Police Service in December 2018 after its report found system racism at an institutional level in the service.
The Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario will hear Monday from migrant workers who allege they were racially targeted by the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) as part of a DNA sweep in connection to a 2013 sexual assault investigation.