When will the Thunder Bay Police be held to account?

Maybe it’s time for a federal regulator of policing in Canada who has national legislative enforcement powers over police forces themselves, covering all federal, provincial, and municipal forces. It should be a regulator with bite and an oversight body driven by citizens.

Sylvie Hauth, chief of police for the Thunder Bay Police Service, pictured in a Thunder Bay Police video explaining the police force's 'Breaking Barriers' initiative to end racism and break down barriers between Indigenous, and other racialized people and the police. Screen capture courtesy of Thunder Bay Police Service

Opinion

BY ROSE LEMAY

March 28, 2022

OTTAWA—A few years ago, I attended a memorial for a First Nations youth who died in Thunder Bay. Like many other First Nations youth who have died in mysterious circumstances in the river that runs through the city, his death was not followed up by the local police. The stories are haunting from f...

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