The OIPRD will be reviewing the deaths of 41-year-old Stacey DeBungee and seven Thunder Bay students who died between 2000-2011. The Ontario police oversight body will hold a sweeping review of Thunder Bay Police’s conduct in the investigations in the deaths of indigenous people. The OIPRD will investigate if “there is a pattern” by Thunder Bay Police to competently investigate aboriginal deaths, Falconer said. “There are too many cases of aboriginal deaths that simply go uninvestigated or incompetently investigated.”The Thunder Bay Police would not comment on details because of the upcoming reviews. None of the lawyers he contacted in Thunder Bay would agree to take the case until he found Falconer, who has recently set up a Thunder Bay branch of his Toronto practice.

Source: thestar September 23, 2016 02:31 UTC