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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…
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Thunder Bay
Canadaland · Society & Culture · English
Thunder Bay has been named an Apple Podcasts Series Essential. When Indigenous teens start turning up dead under suspicious circumstances, host Ryan McMahon sets out to uncover the truth. What he finds is a city steeped in racism, corruption and neglect — a city with the highest homicide and hate
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E1 · 8 Oct 2026 · 6 min
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It's true. Jesse Brown has fired himself as a host of Canadaland podcasts. So who will Canadaland's new hosts be? Stay tuned and support the next chapter of Canadaland here: canadaland.com/join Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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S2 · 13 Nov 2023 · 40 min
Post-Mortem, Part 1
For over five years, Canadaland has been investigating Thunder Bay, Ontario. Specifically, we have been trying to figure out why there were so many unanswered questions around the deaths of Indigenous people in this one Ontario town. We have looked at the cops. The schools. The courts. The government. The people in the town itself. But we never looked at the coroners and the forensic pathologists who are a central part of death investigations. And once we started to do so, freedom of information requests and leaked reports pointed to even greater problems with how deaths are investigated,…
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S2 · E3 · 15 Dec 2020 · 43 min
Criminally Responsible
The verdict arrives in the trial that everyone’s talking about. Can there be justice? As Thunder Bay grapples with the truth about itself, people are still dying. Kids are still dying. So where do we go from here? Support us here: canadaland.com/join . This episode is brought to you by HelloFresh . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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S2 · E2 · 30 Nov 2020 · 42 min
It Happens Because You're Indigenous
When a system is broken, you can work outside of it to create something new, or you can try to change it from within. But what happens when you need the system? Support us here: canadaland.com/join . This episode is brought to you by Missing From the Village and HelloFresh . Additional music by AudioNetwork. CORRECTION: An earlier edit of this episode presented an incomplete criticism of the editorial focus of CBC Thunder Bay. Apologies to Michael Dick and his team for this oversight. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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S2 · E1 · 16 Nov 2020 · 46 min
A Post-Truth Town
It’s infamous as the homicide and hate crime capital of Canada. And now, Thunder Bay has been officially diagnosed as racist. But so what? Does knowing this mean that anything will change? Welcome to Canada's first post-truth town. Support us here: canadaland.com/join . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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S2 · 18 Oct 2020 · 2 min
Introducing: Return to Thunder Bay
New stories from Thunder Bay. Original artwork by Blake Angeconeb and Michah Dowbak. Support us at canadaland.com/join . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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