340 aboriginals volunteer for inquest jury rolls in northern Ontario – Toronto Star
A team compiling lists of on-reserve natives who’ll volunteer to be on jury rolls for inquests probing the deaths of aboriginals in Thunder Bay and Kenora, has so far gathered 340 names.
Mar 04 2015
A team compiling lists of on-reserve natives who’ll volunteer to be on jury rolls for inquests probing the deaths of aboriginals in Thunder Bay and Kenora, has so far gathered 340 names.
The team, which includes, lawyers, a family counsellor and members of the Nishnawbe Aski Nation (NAN), which represents First Nations groups in northern Ontario, has been fanning out to northern Ontario reserves since November as part of a government-funded initiative aimed at reducing the problem of low aboriginal participation on juries.
The problem is so acute that it prompted Dr. Dirk Huyer, Ontario’s chief coroner, to last year halt 12 long-delayed inquests probing the deaths of natives in the Thunder Bay and Kenora areas.
