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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 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.