More aboriginal women allege abuse at hands of Quebec provincial police

[soleiltropiques]

More aboriginal women allege abuse at hands of Quebec provincial police
Women speak out following allegations and investigation into abuse in Val-d'Or

More aboriginal women across Quebec are speaking out about what they say is physical and sexual abuse at the hands of provincial police officers.

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[soleiltropiques]

Exactly. As someone else said, when there are as many cases as this, it isn't a few apples that are rotten but rather the barrel itself.

One really good source for all news regarding Indigenous peoples in Canada is APTN (i.e. Aboriginal People's Television Network) who cover a lot of stories that the rest of the Canadian media don't: http://aptn.ca/news/

Another good source is CBC news (i.e. Canadian Broadcasting Corporation -this is actually a long-standing publically owned broadcaster) and the French side of the CBC, which is called Radio-Canada.

http://www.cbc.ca/news (English news)

http://ici.radio-canada.ca/info (French news)

Also, more specifically at Radio-Canada, there is the program 'Enquete' which is a really good investigate journalism program and is the program which first broke the story:

-Link to last year's episode about the indigenous women near Val-d'Or is here: http://ici.radio-canada.ca/tele/enquete/2015-2016/episodes/360817/femmes-autochtones-surete-du-quebec-sq

The more recent episode about more allegations from indigenous women elsewhere in the province: http://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelles/societe/2016/03/31/001-femmes-autochones-abus-policiers.shtml

Hope this helps! :)

[ioplokon]

Thanks, this is really helpful! I want to follow up on it beyond just hearing rumors about the cops being shady, and this is a great place to start!

[soleiltropiques]

You're so welcome! Glad I could help.