Joyce Echaquan's husband brings courtroom to tears as he pleads for change

After hearing from expert witnesses, health-care workers and Indigenous leaders, through four weeks of gruelling testimony, Joyce Echaquan’s family issued its own recommendations to the coroner Monday, based on one guiding principle — that her death not be in vain.

The coroner’s inquiry is examining the death of Echaquan, a 37-year-old Atikamekw mother of seven, who filmed herself on Facebook Live as a nurse and an orderly were heard making derogatory comments toward her shortly before her death Sept. 28, 2020, at