a strategic competition, but it's not a polite tennis match. this is an existential struggle. that's her up on the top stories, this our for more up to the minute updates head over to r t dot com. thanks for tuning in. we'll see a back at the top of the hour. ah, it's very troubles canada hasn't been very good. ha, to indigenous women and girls who have been missing or found, murdered because of structural racism, history, the clone l history, either canada hardwood indigenous people and communities. and it's so shameful history and a history that canada doesn't like to talk about. not until justin to those election in 2015 with

a to booze of colonization. finally shuddered here on being elected prime minister. the young head of state to give a message to the 1st nations community working together timely the government of canada. sincerely apologizes and asks the forgiveness of the aboriginal peoples of this country for failing them. so profoundly have to apologize into residential school victims. the prime minister tackle the scandal from us for many decades, indigenous women and girls across canada have disappeared, suffered violence, or been killed. it is shameful. it is absolutely

unacceptable, and it must. and ah, with the 1st time in the country's history, he acknowledged genocide. this is a gift to, to the prime minister. just intruder has raised the hopes of an entire people. but indigenous women are still dying. after all the promises breathing families expect actual because most cases are never settled. i wanna make at least a 100 of these little things, maybe more red dresses to denounce the murders and disappearances.

i know has been affected by this sad reality. her niece died 4 years earlier, found murdered in the basement of her house, the filled forever showing the case has never been solved when a big police are putting out another call for public assistance in a definite but woman more than 7 months ago. and you went to what information is called is asked to call investigators that said, this year will be 4 years that she's been, but they said they're they notified a family all the time and they didn't notify a family and her family refused to admit defeat. so they will not let it go. oh

wow. ah anna betty is fighting for the truth as well. ah, for her, the scandal of from a side is a personal issue in her sister, died 4 years ago under suspicious circumstances with she was found by a person that was walking your dog in this area here. we were told that she had been there for possibly for 2 days. we don't know what happened ever since then. ever since may 2016, we been looking for answers. mm

hm. the body bore signs of a beating with wounds to the head and a fractured sterner. the police concluded death by alcohol poisoning. i refused to accept that someone can say, oh, you know what she died of alcohol poisoning because it makes me angry that if it was a caucasian middle aged man that was found there. like, do you think the same the investigation would have been done? the same way, no, it wouldn't have, they would have been working really hard to find the answers. and so, why are we have less value in we're disposable. you know? and that if one of us dies, that you know what it doesn't really matter with,

there's lots of people who have committed murder in this city. and other parts of canada who are walking are on free. ah, and with a homicide rate, 4 times greater than the national average. thunder bay is dub canada's crime. capital. dozens of suspicious deaths are closed without investigation, often involving 1st nations women. ah! for a long time, the reality remained hidden until the report by a police watch dog set the cat among the pigeons. mm. a scathing report by ontario's police watch dog has found under base police service,

is rife with racism. and the handling of at least 9 cases involving the sudden death of indigenous people were so problematic, they should be re investigated. i found a systemic racism exist in thunder bay. police service at an institutional level. investigations were too often handled differently because the deceased was indigenous investigators ignored evidence potentially pointed to a non accidental cause or contribution to the death. at least 9 of these cases should be re investigated by a multi disciplinary team. ah, after months of negotiations, we are given permission to cover the reopening of these 9 neglected cases. but at the last moment,

the chief investigator fails to show the replacement officer sent to accompany us a local policeman. ah, the city's been painted in a little bit of a negative light recently, just with a lot of negative media or crime. we've been at the top of some of the pretty bad categories when it comes to crime scene, domestics, or violent crimes or murder work or higher up there. so a lot of people see that and they paint funner bay with a certain brush. i don't want anyone thinking that investigations are cut short, so we're here to reinvestigate these 9 and kind of go over the top. make sure every single thing is found. every stone is overturned, the officer must restore the police services prestige. it's

a daunting task. i feel like that's gonna go a long way and rebuild a lot of the relationships between the police and the community. so we arrived on scene here. it's our only indoor scene of the 9 scenes that were re investigating. so the access is going to be limited. so that's $210.00 east victoria avenue. ah. from the very 1st crime scene clear kept at a distance our guide seizes the opportunity to make a few calls and chat to his colleagues. excited about we leave the car with the microphone inside is still switched on. oh, i agree to do this. these 2 french guys are hilarious. they're amazing. trust. i got a mike on. i got

a mike on turn this thing off. we returned to the car from one who is the policeman. seems put out by our questions on him and right, right. he redefines the rules governing or interviewing. is there a link between this crimes times a residential school? but all due respect, gentlemen, we've known each other for a couple hours and the way that there's so much negativity given on to the police that i don't especially the front of a police. i just don't feel comfortable giving those types of answers that could be chopped and put back together. you know what i'm saying? i see. yeah. ah, there's 3 boys on here. the tour of crime scenes continues

carefulness. no gentlemen, for we carry on along the river of tears, a canal with a sinister reputation. oh, in recent years, several indigenous corpses have been fish out of these waters. some of these cases are part of the new investigation. careful where you walk guys, because there's a lot of empty packages here from needles. so just have a look while you're walking. also unexplained. the deaths have been filed under accidental. that's what the police watchdog recorded in their report. so this is area, christine glory was found at the end of march 2016 right. by the sign 29. at the time, the woman was found in the early hours for pants down and closed scattered despite

signs of sexual activity and traces of dna held on, filed the police quickly closed the case. ah, officially, christina died from hypothermia. why was it classified as a sudden death? you're saying? yeah, because there was no evidence to say otherwise to lead it into an a criminal investigation . so you can't create evidence freight if you're living a higher risk lifestyle and you're constantly using and abusing substances, then you're going to put yourself in high risk situations. so for the youths that live that lifestyle, whether whatever race they be, it's, you know, when you're doing that, you're playing a different game. there's, there's a bigger chance of something bad can happen if you surround yourself in situations

that have a greater risk to them, to your health and safety. so ah, the usual reference to the indigenous lifestyle it is a common argument put forth by the police with the investigations. now we opened it's a sensitive subject to the case manager can leopard wanted to stick the line of questioning strictly to questions about the scenes. he didn't know that we would be doing all the stuff while at them. so what, what does the program is to talk about what he thinks ah, yeah he, i think that might be part of it. i don't think he wants. i think he wants to keep the focus for us as investigator simply on the 9, the 9 deaths. because it's a sensitive question, very sensitive question. um,

it's got some sensitive elements to it for sure. but we could talk, and if i don't feel comfortable asking, answering a question that i won't answer ah, the following morning we make one final attempt at a crime scene. ah, ah, ah, ah,

ah, the atmosphere has become even more frosty over night. so anyway, i apologize they, they told me not to ride with you guys and everybody scared that i don't know. i thought we had some good dialogue yesterday. and then the police chief arrives gentlemen. hey, how are you this morning? we're both newer and i have old thunder bay. we're going to be old very close here. so what i was going to do is keep the media here in the parking lot. she can stay warm or we're going to be. so you'll be able to see us doing our work from here. it takes investigators only a few minutes to complete their mission. with

a few in thunder bay believe that the re investigation of these cases will produce results. for her part. i know continues to move heaven and earth to find the truth about her murdered niece in my beautiful and my beautiful name once a year, every year she gathers the family outside the house where her niece died. i need to lane and then i think a, this is all that i know has to keep alive the memory of her dead. nice.

oh. after here of denial in silence for the grievances of 1st nations people. so finally being aired, demonstrators gather outside the prime minister's office, and order was part of the building. as, as, as indigenous. he is leading the way to meeting with, to recognize the non indigenous books that are supporting as the stand by with the minister of charity. when you're guilty of systemic and reckless discrimination against 1st nation children, you cough up, you pay up and you say, sorry, ah,

i want to say how inspired i am to see young indigenous standing up and their allies and the women walking and brown, telling canada that there is a better way forward in that way, respecting the land and respecting the treaties and respecting the people i am honored to be a c. thank you. so charlie, i think us is one of the only politicians in canada to defend the rights of 1st nations people for more than 20 years. he has been present at every battle. his activism was triggered by events at the residential school. i'm only like a member of parliament. these youngsters one candidate to acknowledge his role in the darker side of its history. ah, and finally break the taboos of colonization. i was almost 40 years old before ever stepped foot on and

when i was elected my region, is that some of the 1st 1st nations communities anywhere. ah. and i remember same when i 1st landed in this community. it was just, it looked like a prisoner of war, kim and i said, what did the other member of parliament say when he came here and they laughed, they said the member of parliament never came to us. we had to find him. how can that be my country like canada, need you think my name? that's canada. we think we know our history. we think we know our neighbors. and yet just beside a big center, there will be a reserve where there's no clean water. since 2013 charlie angus has been fighting alongside the victims of st. pounds, were children were tortured in the electric chair. yeah. unlike other victims of

the residential schools, they have received no financial reparations for the abuse. they suffered legal proceedings have been rumbling on for years and to become a symbol of a national scandal. these are all from the police investigations that were done at st and report the interview with the police officer. was there use of an electric chair to administer shocks to children who were tied in the chair. yes, there were consistent reports to the electric chair. some report suggested it was used for entertainment. there were beatings. children forced, he throwing vomit. yes, numerous people edge alleged that it affected them was their homosexual rape? yes. at her sexual rate. yes. it's like her horror movie. it goes on and on, on and on. when the case came to

court, the canadian government adopted an odd position it refused to handle for evidence. victims no longer have access to their own testimony. it will take years for them to recover it. all the government was forced to turn over those documents. but then they blacked out the names of many of the perpetrators. what we got back was page after page after page of empty documents, the government blacked out almost all the evidence for them. the documents weren't useful. so many of the worst criminals got away the bishop's got away. ah, the ones who done most of the damage never got charged ah okay, i gotta go ah,

i used to think they were trying to hide somebody. i thought there was some bishop very important. ah, but what they're protecting is they're protecting the government of canada from having to pay its obligations. ah, now they're facing in canada. billions of dollars for this generation of indigenous children who are being taken away from their families. losing the case against st ends might bring to light other scandals and caused the state. dear noon, i go on, dario. i left flowers. i'm moving slower is got snow. parliament session is about to begin and i'm going to be asking to find the government in

contempt of parliament, the florida for falsifying informations ah, 2 years earlier, the mpg will prime minister to the matter of evidence being concealed by the government operations. all remember for timmins, james bay, children at st and residential school, suffered nightmarish levels of abuse, torture and child rape. and yet the office of the attorney general suppressed thousands of pages of police evidence that identified the perpetrators. and in doing so, they had cases thrown out and undermine the hearing. and now that the justice department has been forced to turn over those documents, the claimant's inadmissible. unless the survivor finds a witness to verify these atrocities, to the prime minister enough, the survivors has sane and has there a better will he instruct his government to end this obstruction of justice against the survivors saying at once. and for all honorable prime minister,

the ills done to indigenous people over decades and centuries of colonialism in this country are shameful, and are something that we need to learn from and move forward on. that includes respecting the rights of indigenous peoples. now, in all their different aspects, and that's why we're working with survivors lurked working with communities to ensure that we can move forward in a way that is fully respectful of all their rights as we get a get to the bottom of this, understand their history and make reparations in the right way, moving forward. ah, despite the prime minister's promises, ah, the canadian government has adopted a new strategy and gone on the attack. ah, they will go to any lengths to unsettled their opponents. over $3000000.00 are

being spent on court cost. ah, the governmental, the preferred seems to the side with the perpetrators when they're telling the public that they will decide with the latest act of this cynical approach is to prosecute the victims lawyer. ah, said bruning is represented the st ends plaintiffs for 10 years as a volunteer on this occasion. it is her clients who will be supporting her in a toronto courtroom in like edmund. they have come from all over ontario for the trial

with . how are you, my friend, after to see us? oh, never ends. but it keeps me keep moving. in my brain, with the point in the 1st case of its kind, why the lawyer is accused of slandering the court. ah, the potential $25000.00 fine, would force her to withdraw her commitment to the victims cause a after a short hearing, the judge rules in her favor, thanks to the survivors of saint anne's,

residential school. a whole people has just won its 1st battle. and with some kind of revenge on history, ah, the philosophy of they said was to kill indian and the child, which meant took them from their family in their land. they would cease to be indian people. but what they did was they created generations of damaged people, but never stop being indian people. ah, we are not free. we are prisoners of canada in 2020 a apologies apology. but the reality is, i still have my banner i

will continue to fight until they say no more. it no more reserves were free. ah ah ah ah ah, yes. now can you give me the stippling

sneer to me up in urban group? kim's, the new book is up for the national shift. anyway, the young will showcase is with a boy. why is it up to a boy a quote, i'm not sure if it's, laura doesn't want that much extra mom, but i know it's a good hole. we've got to do is identify the threats that we have. it's crazy. even foundation, let it be an arms race, movies on, often very dramatic development. only mostly i'm going to resist. i don't see how

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