Indigenous Suicide

• Ontario’s coroner reveals inquest into death of Devon Freeman near Hamilton group home

  Ontario's regional coroner is set to begin an inquest into the death of the Indigenous teenager whose body was found just metres from a group home in 2018.

  Canada

  Sep 15, 2022
  
• NDP leader, police chief attend Walking With Our Angels rally held in Saskatoon

  Tristen Durocher and Christopher Merasty are walking more than 600 kilometres to call for action for the high suicide rate in northern Saskatchewan.

  Canada

  Jul 18, 2020
  
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• Advocate calls for legislation to address Saskatchewan’s high Indigenous suicide rate

  Tristen Durocher is walking more than 600 km to draw attention to the high rate of Indigenous suicide in Saskatchewan.

  Canada

  Jul 13, 2020
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• Patrick Brazeau continues push for male suicide study, says many ‘ashamed to ask for help’

  The senator pleaded guilty in 2015 to assaulting a woman and received an unconditional discharge later that year.

  Canada

  Dec 22, 2019
• Ontario family calls for inquest into suicide of Indigenous teen in government care

  The circumstances that allowed an Indigenous teenager to take his own life metres from his group home and go undiscovered for months can only be remedied by an inquest from the Ontario coroner, according to a request from the boy's loved ones.

  Canada

  Dec 8, 2019
• Advocates call for national youth suicide strategy: ‘Our children will continue to die’

  Between 2013 and 2017, at least 1,174 youth between eight and 19 years old died by suicide.

  Canada

  Sep 17, 2019
• First Nations suicide rate 3 times higher than for non-Indigenous people: StatsCan

  The agency reported Friday on the rates of death by suicide for self-identifying First Nations people, Metis and Inuit from 2011 to 2016, compared to non-Indigenous people.

  Canada

  Jun 30, 2019
• Four suicides in northern Ontario First Nations communities this week: spokesman

  There have now been eighteen suicides within the Nishnawbe Aski Nation's territory since Jan. 1 of this year, a spokesman says.

  Canada

  Jul 7, 2017
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• Indigenous suicide report calls on feds to provide supports after hours and on weekends

  This, the committee said, is when emergencies typically happen.

  Health

  Jun 19, 2017
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• Beyond the headlines: Small-town Attawapiskat hums quietly along amid suicide crisis

  In many ways, Attawapiskat -- population 2,100 -- has all the trappings of any small town, including older folk lamenting the changing of the times.

  Canada

  Apr 28, 2016