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, 2019
• Lawyer says families ‘ignored’ as Broken Trust final report on death reinvestigations expected within weeks — CBC News, Feb 15, 2022
• Reports on racism and a reckoning for Thunder Bay — TVO Today, Jan 17, 2019
• 2 police officers step on handcuffed man’s back as doctor watches at First Nation nursing station — CBC News, Jul 10, 2017
• Thunder Bay Police Board chair apologizes to families after report urges more death reinvestigations — CBC News, March 16, 2022
• Thunder Bay TV series, Crave

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