Chair of Thunder Bay, Ont., police board commits to earning back trust of families in death reinvestigations

The chair of the Thunder Bay Police Services Board has broken her silence two weeks after the Broken Trust final report was submitted to the board, and over a week after it was recommended more sudden deaths of Indigenous people in northwestern Ontario should be reinvestigated. 

Kristen Oliver, who’s also a city councillor, committed to keep working “to rebuild trust and transform” the Thunder Bay Police Service (TBPS).

“Ensuring investigative integrity in cases, especially involving our Indigenous communities, is paramount to rebuilding trust. Where there are areas to do more, we will ensure that happens,” Oliver said during a news conference Wednesday