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The Thunder Bay Police Service and area Indigenous police forces should create a new regional policing model to address the systemic racism that has plagued the TBPS, according to an expert panel that has completed the latest review of the force.
The panel, led by the former chair of the Toronto Police Services board, was scathing in its assessment of the slow progress shown by the force despite repeated reviews by provincial police oversight agencies.
The report urges the TBPS and its civilian board to commit to several steps toward forming a regional model, including joint training and firing-range facilities and sharing of personnel. Cases of Indigenous sudden deaths and missing persons should be investigated by blended teams led by TBPS but including Indigenous officers.
It recommended that the new model could combine services from the TBPS, the RCMP, the OPP, the Anishinabek Police Service and Nishnawbe Aski Police Service.
Thunder Bay Police Service exits a call on Simpson Street in Thunder Bay's east end.David Jackson/The Globe and Mail
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Guardsman arrested in leak of classified military documents
A Massachusetts Air National Guard member will appear in court today in connection with the disclosure of highly classified military documents about the Ukraine war and other top national security issues, an alarming breach that has raised fresh questions about America’s ability to safeguard its most sensitive secrets.
The Massachusetts Air National Guard member was identified as 21-year-old Jack Teixeira, who was arrested in his Massachusetts home Thursday. U.S. Attorney-General Merrick Garland did not reveal a possible motive, but accounts of those in the online private Discord chat group where the documents were disclosed have depicted Teixeira as motivated more by bravado than ideology.
FBI agents arrest Jack Teixeira, an employee of the U.S. Air Force National Guard, in connection with an investigation into the leaks online of classified U.S. documents, outside a residence in North Dighton, Mass., April 13.WCVB-TV/Reuters
Cobblestone roads of France no match for Alison Jackson, rising Canadian cycling star
Alison Jackson, a Canadian professional cyclist from Alberta became the new queen of cobble traction this past weekend with a win at the famed Paris-Roubaix Femmes race.
She is the only North American to have won either the men’s version of the race, which dates to 1896, or the women’s, which just had its third edition. Oliver Moore chronicles her journey to make Canadian cycling history.
Alison Jackson of Canada reacts after she crosses the finish line to win the women's Paris–Roubaix, a 145-kilometre one-day race, at the velodrome in Roubaix, northern France, April 8, 2023.Tim De Waele/The Associated Press
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Also on our radar
New research shows warming temperatures are turning permafrost regions into carbon sinks: Warming temperatures have led to a flourish of spring foliage so robust that permafrost regions have become a carbon sink, storing carbon rather than releasing it, new research from a Montana group has found.
Teck CEO plays down quick sale of Teck Metals to larger competitor, saying most value to come from in-house copper projects: Teck Resources Ltd. chief executive officer Jonathan Price played down any notion of its metals business being quickly acquired by a big foreign multinational after a planned split of the company, as the Canadian miner rejected Glencore PLC’s latest hostile takeover offer.
Bank of Canada’s Macklem says inflation falling quickly, but emphasizes longer fight to return to 2 per cent: Inflation should fall quickly in the coming months, but getting it back to 2 per cent could be a long slog, Bank of Canada Governor Tiff Macklem said Thursday, suggesting that interest rates may need to remain elevated for some time.
OSFI warns of longer-term risks as banks extend mortgage terms to help borrowers: Canada’s banking regulator is warning that although extensions to mortgage payment periods have helped borrowers absorb surging costs, the fix is short-term and will keep them in debt for longer, threatening both their financial stability and that of the banking system.
Morning markets
Europe heads for weekly gain: European shares rose in early trading on Friday, with the STOXX 600 up for a fifth session in a row, as expectations rose that the U.S. Federal Reserve may soon finish raising interest rates. Around 5:30 a.m. ET, Britain’s FTSE 100 was up 0.23 per cent. Germany’s DAX and France’s CAC 40 advanced 0.32 per cent and 0.19 per cent, respectively. In Asia, Japan’s Nikkei ended up 1.2 per cent. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng advanced 0.46 per cent. New York futures were weaker. The Canadian dollar was up at 75.09 US cents.
What everyone’s talking about
Johnston should tell Trudeau to call inquiry on China now
“Whatever secret documents Mr. Johnston may be privy to, the publicly available evidence – not least new revelations by my colleagues Robert Fife and Steven Chase of alleged blatant manipulation of the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation by people acting on behalf of China – requires a thorough public examination.” – John Ibbitson
Ottawa and Ontario just don’t get it: We need a lot more LTC beds
“Lest we forget, a chronic failure to build enough LTC beds in modern facilities, and to staff them properly, was a contributing factor in the COVID-19 deaths of thousands of LTC residents in Canada’s two most populous provinces, Ontario and Quebec, and to a lesser degree in other provinces.” – The Editorial Board
France is having a pension crisis. Why isn’t Canada?
“Canada is not having a pension crisis. You may not have noticed. ‘Absence of Crisis Expected to Continue Indefinitely, Experts Say’ is not a headline we tend to put on the front page.” – Tony Keller
Today’s editorial cartoon
Illustration by Brian Gable
Living better
We asked how your lives improved during the pandemic. Here’s what you said
The pandemic threw into question everything we thought we knew, from office culture to citizens’ trust in the government. It forced a change in how we lived: milestones were marked without loved ones, our isolation separated us from friends and family, and future planning became unfathomable when so much was uncertain.
But the past three years also offered people the opportunity to rethink their values and priorities, break old habits and start new ones. Embracing change feels like a worthy antidote to years of tragedy, sadness and grief. Now, in the return to “normal,” Canadians are discovering whether the lessons we learned will stick – and, perhaps, give us new models for a happier relationship with ourselves.
Moment in time: April 14, 1980
Jeanne Sauvé becomes first female Speaker in Canadian House of Commons
Madame Jeanne Sauvé, who will be sworn in as Speaker of Canada's House of Commons in Ottawa, poses in the library of her Montreal home April 14, 1980. Madame Sauve is wearing the Speakers robes.HAROLD ROSENBERG/The Canadian Press
Ottawa builder Charles Benoît would take his daughter Jeanne-Mathilde to Parliament Hill and tell her that she, too, could sit in the House of Commons one day. She did that – and much more. Born in 1922 in Prud’homme, Sask., a small Fransaskois village northeast of Saskatoon where her father had some contract work, Jeanne was 4 when her family returned to Ottawa. She excelled at school, juggling university classes with work as a government translator. After marrying economist and future Liberal politician Maurice Sauvé in Montreal in 1948, Jeanne spent the next few years in London and Paris. On her return to Canada, she worked as a journalist for Radio-Canada, first on radio, then television, becoming a popular media figure. She was recruited by the Liberal Party to run in a Montreal riding in 1972 and thereafter served in Pierre Trudeau’s cabinet. Then, history came calling. On this day in 1980, Jeanne Sauvé was named the first female Speaker of the House of Commons. Four years later, in May, 1984, she became the first woman to serve as governor-general of Canada. Even her father, her biggest cheerleader, would probably have been surprised by her success in the male-dominated world of Canadian politics. Bill Waiser.
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