First Nations Leaders Push for Disbandment of Thunder Bay Police Amid Investigations into Indigenous Deaths
Thunder Bay, Ontario – First Nations leaders in northwestern Ontario are calling for the disbandment of the Thunder Bay Police Service (TBPS) and urging the provincial inspector general of policing to bring in an external agency to investigate recent deaths of Indigenous individuals. Leaders from Nishnawbe Aski Nation (NAN) gathered at Queen’s Park in Toronto alongside Kiiwetinoong MPP Sol Mamakwa and other First Nations leaders and family members to address the issue. NAN Grand Chief …