First Nations Student Deaths Inquest
A joint inquest into the deaths of seven First Nations students is running Thunder Bay, Ont. All of the students died between 2000 and 2011 while attending high school in the city, hundreds of kilometres away from their remote First Nations where access to education is limited.
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'There is no funding' for support services for First Nations students in #tbay , Frenette says. Only $ for school, brding homes #tbinquestby Jody Porter via twitter 3/9/2016 2:58:21 PM -
Frenette says First Nations education funding policy dates to 1988, capped in 1996, no $ for libraries, gyms, science labs #tbinquestby Jody Porter via twitter 3/9/2016 2:56:58 PM
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Frenette says NAN has been advocating for over 5 years to get province to pay 'reverse tuition' to First Nations schools #tbinquestby Jody Porter via twitter 3/9/2016 2:55:37 PM
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First witness today is Dobi-Dawn Frenette. She's the education director at Nishnawbe Aski Nation. #tbinquestby Jody Porter via twitter 3/9/2016 2:49:11 PM
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Waiting for #tbinquest to start. See this 1976 article about First Nations students in #tbay . Tx Dave Nicholson http://pbs.twimg.com/media/CdHR_JXWIAAyTUz.jpg
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Anticipating the arrival of this group of youth walkers at the #tbinquest today cbc.ca/beta/news/cana…by Jody Porter via twitter 3/9/2016 2:24:50 PM
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Back at the #tbinquest on Wednesday. Indigenous Affairs officials scheduled to testify this morning.by Jody Porter via twitter 3/9/2016 2:18:12 PM
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First Nations student deaths inquest: Public being 'cut out', lawyer says #tbinquest
cbc.ca/1.3482290 http://pbs.twimg.com/media/CdG06uHWwAAfMBj.jpgby Jody Porter via twitter 3/9/2016 12:36:21 PM -
Falconer: 'I fear with his schedule, his ability to testify is in jeopardy.' Grand Chief may never testify at #tbinquestby Jody Porter via twitter 3/8/2016 9:38:33 PM
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Absence of ruling means @gcfiddler Grand Chief Alvin Fiddler cannot testify today. #tbinquestby Jody Porter via twitter 3/8/2016 9:37:34 PM
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Coroner: you're asking for the ruling at this point? The ruling is not available at this time. #tbinquestby Jody Porter via twitter 3/8/2016 9:36:37 PM
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Coroner calls a recess to make his ruling. #tbinquestby Jody Porter via twitter 3/8/2016 8:31:39 PM
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Falconer: For the record, at no time did I have my back turned to you. #tbinquestby Jody Porter via twitter 3/8/2016 8:31:01 PM
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Coroner to Falconer: Are you addressing the court or the audience? You had your back turned to me. 1/2 #tbinquestby Jody Porter via twitter 3/8/2016 8:30:34 PM
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Falconer clarifies that he was told in that conversation that letter would require a motion to enter. Shea says that's true #tbinquestby Jody Porter via twitter 3/8/2016 8:27:56 PM
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Coroner's counsel Shea says Falconer told at lunch break that 'we should simply start evidence', deal w/letter when it came up #tbinquestby Jody Porter via twitter 3/8/2016 8:26:58 PM
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Coroner Dr. Eden: 'No ruling was made on this matter, If you want to file a motion you may do so off the record.' #tbinquestby Jody Porter via twitter 3/8/2016 8:03:54 PM
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'It was never the intention of the rules to suppress and keep secret what should be public,' Falconer says #tbinquestby Jody Porter via twitter 3/8/2016 8:02:06 PM
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'You can't keep putting me in the hallway and then telling me I can't talk about what happened in the hallway,' Falconer says #tbinquestby Jody Porter via twitter 3/8/2016 8:00:58 PM
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Falconer says coroner's counsel told him 'in the hallway' that he would not be allowed to enter letter into evidence #tbinquestby Jody Porter via twitter 3/8/2016 8:00:21 PM
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'I don't expect to be muzzled,' Falconer says. 'It is stifling and great concern to the public.' #tbinquestby Jody Porter via twitter 3/8/2016 7:58:49 PM
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Falconer: 'I do not believe it is appropriate to cut out the public' #tbinquestby Jody Porter via twitter 3/8/2016 7:54:57 PM
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Falconer says he wants argument about admissibility of letter on the record. 'This is not supposed to be a secret proceeding' #tbinquestby Jody Porter via twitter 3/8/2016 7:52:49 PM
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The recipient of the letter has now been blacked out. #tbinquestby Jody Porter via twitter 3/8/2016 7:51:27 PM
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Back in court. Falconer says he was advised not to identify the recipient of the letter he was seeking to put on the record. #tbinquestby Jody Porter via twitter 3/8/2016 7:50:15 PM
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Falconer says wants to enter into evidence the letter he was directed by @NANComms to write, that prompted the #tbinquestby Jody Porter via twitter 3/8/2016 7:38:25 PM
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#tbinquest delayed after lunch. Nishnawbe Aski Nation lawyer Julian Falconer says this is why 1/2 http://pbs.twimg.com/media/CdDLIBWWwAEPSep.jpg
by Jody Porter via twitter 3/8/2016 7:35:00 PM -
Morris' testimony finished. Inquest to resume at 2:15. @gcfiddler scheduled to testify this afternoon #tbinquestby Jody Porter via twitter 3/8/2016 6:16:32 PM
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Coroner Dr. Eden suggests TB sanatoriums 'example of cooperative program that substantially improved health of First Nations' #tbinquestby Jody Porter via twitter 3/8/2016 6:11:55 PM
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Jury returns. Feds lawyer asks who provides $ for mental health programming in First Nations? Morris says Health Canada. #tbinquestby Jody Porter via twitter 3/8/2016 5:53:58 PM
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PACY lawyer: funding amounts have no context without evidence of what needs in communities are #tbinquestby Jody Porter via twitter 3/8/2016 5:48:51 PM
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PACY lawyer says Human Rights tribunal ruling re: discriminatory funding for child welfare as reason $ ? from feds inappropriate #tbinquestby Jody Porter via twitter 3/8/2016 5:45:43 PM
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Federal government lawyer says purpose of the inquest is for gov't to explain what funding it does & does not provide and why #tbinquestby Jody Porter via twitter 3/8/2016 5:41:16 PM
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Jury excused while lawyers argue about whether federal gov't lawyer can continue asking questions re:funding levels. #tbinquestby Jody Porter via twitter 3/8/2016 5:39:32 PM
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Health Canada regional director Keith Conn scheduled to testify on Thursday morning #tbinquestby Jody Porter via twitter 3/8/2016 5:14:00 PM
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Question allowed. Morris says you'd have to ask Health Canada about why their policies don't allow a parent to be w/their child #tbinquestby Jody Porter via twitter 3/8/2016 5:12:20 PM
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Jury excused. Lawyers argue whether Morris can be asked about gov't policy re: $ for parents' travel when students in crisis #tbinquestby Jody Porter via twitter 3/8/2016 5:04:42 PM
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Morris: Health Canada required pregnant student in Sioux Lookout to return to her reserve before being flown to Slkt to hospital #tbinquestby Jody Porter via twitter 3/8/2016 4:58:59 PM
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Health Canada non-insured health benefits policy for First Nations 'don't work on the ground' are 'haywire' #tbinquestby Jody Porter via twitter 3/8/2016 4:56:12 PM
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Morris: 'I've been accused of running my family like an army sergeant. That's residential school.' #tbinquestby Jody Porter via twitter 3/8/2016 4:52:44 PM
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Morris:'I required years & years of training frm traditional healers to make sure I didn't pass on my experience to my sons.' #tbinquest 2/2by Jody Porter via twitter 3/8/2016 4:43:19 PM
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On residential school trauma, Morris says 'you need as much time to fix it as it took to create it' #tbinquest 1/2by Jody Porter via twitter 3/8/2016 4:41:35 PM
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Morris:'We can listen to young people anytime. What we need is a mechanism to make sure they're heard' & needs are met #tbinquestby Jody Porter via twitter 3/8/2016 4:31:59 PM
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Morris says a @NANComms youth forum in 1990s recommended an inquiry into youth suicide. #tbinquestby Jody Porter via twitter 3/8/2016 4:29:49 PM
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Morris: when there's such a housing shortage how do you justify building a place for youth to gather? #tbinquestby Jody Porter via twitter 3/8/2016 4:28:19 PM