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April 12, 2024


Former Thunder Bay police chief arrested and charged in misconduct probe

A former Thunder Bay police chief has been arrested and charged as part of an ongoing misconduct investigation, Ontario Provincial Police said Friday.  Toronto Star: The Canadian Press – A former Thunder Bay police chief has been arrested and charged as part of an ongoing misconduct investigation, Ontario Provincial Police said Friday. Police arrested Sylvie...

April 9, 2024


OPP charges former legal counsel with Thunder Bay police with breach of trust, obstruction

Holly Walbourne in an undated photo. Photo courtesy: TBnewswatch.com  APTN News: The Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) has laid several charges against a lawyer who acted as legal counsel for the Thunder Bay Police Service. The OPP’s Criminal Investigations Branch announced the charges against Holly Walbourne on Tuesday. Walbourne is facing five charges including three counts of...

March 13, 2024


B.C. judge warns of ‘tsunami’ of Indigenous identity fraud cases

Baptist pastor charged with possessing child pornography claimed Métis status based on great-great-grandparent WARNING: This story contains details of child sexual exploitation and pornography. CBC News: After he was charged with possessing child pornography, Nathan Allen Joseph Legault discovered a figure from his past he hoped might help with his future. The Prince Rupert, B.C., man...

April 25, 2023


This Ojibway man served his sentence, then says the Crown tried to put strict conditions on his release

Case of Shaldon Wabason, who fought and won peace bond attempt, raises concerns involving Indigenous people CBC News: A man from an Ojibway First Nation in northwestern Ontario says Crown lawyers wrongfully tried to impose unnecessarily strict conditions on his release from jail. Shaldon Wabason, who’s from Whitesand First Nation, and his lawyers say prosecutors in...

December 14, 2020


Death of Barbara Kentner: manslaughter conviction

Brayden Bushby found guilty of manslaughter. “I find that the Crown has proven beyond a reasonable doubt that Mr. Bushby’s dangerous and unlawful act accelerated and caused Ms. Kentner’s death,” Justice Helen Pierce told the court....

September 18, 2020


Death of Barbara Kentner: murder charges reduced to manslaughter

CBC – Second degree murder charges have been reduced to manslaughter and aggravated assault against Brayden Bushby for the death of 34-year old Barbara Kentner. Bushby threw a trailer hitch from a moving car, yelling “I got one” after he hit the Indigenous women in the stomach. His originally scheduled judge and jury trial has...