Jon Thompson

Journalist @Ricochet_en. Belongs to Northwestern Ontario. Prev. @CANADALAND @CBCTBay @TVO @APTNNews. Stream “Thunder Bay” @CraveCanada. [email protected]

[Jon Thompson @JonSThompson]

Former Thunder Bay police chief Sylvie Hauth will stand trial tomorrow.
In "Thunder Bay" on Crave, we showed you how TBay police, mired in systemic racism scandal, investigated their own Anishinaabe board chair.
This is that story from the inside.
https://t.co/vhGfcSGFtN

[Jon Thompson @JonSThompson]

@CarAdrianH @ricochet_en @dreahouston @EthanCoxMtl Thank you very much.

I’m going to set a goal of making it down to Ottawa this year. We’ll chop it up.

[Jon Thompson @JonSThompson]

Thanks so much to DPAs for standing behind the Work.
Thanks @dreahouston and @EthanCoxMtl at Ricochet for your patience.

And to the Northwest, first, last, and always. I live to bear witness and your trust means everything: more than ever.

[Ricochet Media @ricochet_en]

Congratulations to @JonSThompson on his big win at today’s Digital Publishing Awards in the Best News Coverage (Community/local) category!

Jon won for his body of work. A beat covering an area larger than most European countries, and featuring stories no one else is telling. ❤️

[Jon Thompson @JonSThompson]

It’s wrong when Doug Ford does it.

It’s wrong if Mark Carney does it.

This new consensus that the public doesn’t get to know how our leaders communicate anymore is wrong.

It’s wrong and it has to be stopped.

https://t.co/IRqmTOM8CD

[Ahmad Elbayoumi @ahmadelbayoumi]

NEW: The Carney government is considering changes to the Access to Information Act, which governs access to government records.

One proposal would limit requests to “official records” stored in official repositories, while excluding “transitory records.”

https://t.co/13NGe2Q70d

[David Pugliese @davidpugliese]

The Liberal government is being accused of rushing through Parliament a deeply controversial bill that would make it easier for police and spies to tap private communications during investigations.

https://t.co/jqiSBzwep9

[Jon Thompson @JonSThompson]

I really hate to say this.
While repaving the existing Main Street in Geraldton is arguably needed, it would be a stretch to call it a significant infrastructure advancement or frame it as though it was a road to the proposed Ring of Fire. https://t.co/ZaADhwylC6

[Jon Thompson @JonSThompson]

Integrity commissioner finds Dryden Coun. Ritch Noel making false statements about staff and calling a constituent outside to fight does not violate the code of conduct.

Yeah, this all seems totally normal.

[Jon Thompson @JonSThompson]

Families of missing persons found dead in Thunder Bay call for a permanent search & rescue team.
https://t.co/iLLj8GXA2G
This, as Thunder Bay police chief trades barbs with First Nations leaders over police actions & attitudes toward searchers.
https://t.co/ZRtyVNCacw

[Ricochet Media @ricochet_en]

Indigenous families call for permanent search team in Thunder Bay.

Frustrations boil over between police chief, First Nations leaders following discovery of four bodies in two weeks.

https://t.co/NLFStGTJwJ

[Jon Thompson @JonSThompson]

Thunder Bay police & First Nations leaders are trading barbs over the treatment of grassroots searchers as 4 missing persons were discovered dead over the last 2 weeks.
https://t.co/ZRtyVNCacw
Some families are calling for permanent search & rescue op.
https://t.co/iLLj8GXA2G

[Jon Thompson @JonSThompson]

Former Chronicle Journal publisher & Thunder Bay mayoral candidate Clint Harris accuses NAN Grand Chief Alvin Fiddler of being "divisive" for criticizing police communication & competence after four missing persons were found dead in the city in two weeks.
https://t.co/0qZKLBCZCP

[Jon Thompson @JonSThompson]

Police Association of Ontario recognizes Thunder Bay police civilian Olivia Gater with the On-Duty Difference Maker Award.
Gater increased referrals to social supports for those engaging with police by 1,000% over three years.
https://t.co/VcN9nA7L5b

[Jon Thompson @JonSThompson]

@Ciel2114 @CANADALAND Sudbury has a pathology department that serves certain parts of the Northeast.

For three years now, the whole Northwest flies to Toronto.

[Jon Thompson @JonSThompson]

For those following five missing persons found dead in Thunder Bay this month...
https://t.co/MdJVMWTIaM
All northwestern Ontario's dead have to fly to Toronto because they shut down post-mortem services, for $6,000 per body.
Our 2023 pod for @CANADALAND:
https://t.co/LV1UQ3aKGN

[Jon Thompson @JonSThompson]

Focusing on process is the thing @avilewis is doing right.
The Left wins when people believe due process produces winning outcomes.
His challenge is how processes are outdated and civil society is crushed. The state cannot force the legitimacy of process, it can only facilitate.

[Scott Robertson @sarobertson_]

Avi Lewis: "Canada is now living a new chapter of the shock doctrine story. It's also known as the political strategy of flooding the zone. The Carney government right now is pursuing an agenda of shocking scale and speed."

[Jon Thompson @JonSThompson]

@UofT_ijb Do not stop. There's gold down there.

And thank you.

[Jon Thompson @JonSThompson]

@anenigma420 @LandBack1983NVF @CANADALAND I suspected that.
So your next call is to your local police board rep. to see what kind of cost and human resource pressure that puts on holding the scene, accompanying the body, and investigative communication.
I don't pretend to know if that's a problem but it's a problem here.

[Jon Thompson @JonSThompson]

@anenigma420 @LandBack1983NVF @CANADALAND I hope it doesn't.
I hope Ontario heeds the Broken Trust reports from its police watchdogs and the advice of its professional association of coroners and I hope it builds and staff it in Thunder Bay.
I'm tired of writing about how we don't believe police outcomes in sudden deaths

[Jon Thompson @JonSThompson]

@anenigma420 @LandBack1983NVF @CANADALAND I would operate under the suspicion that your local hospital or coroner's office could be under the same kind of pressure.
Sending bodies from KW to Toronto would be way easier (and maybe even more efficient). Certainly more so than this insane, days-long process from the north.

[Jon Thompson @JonSThompson]

@CharcoalEpitaph @CANADALAND What makes the post-mortem loss dystopian is how Ontario's police watchdogs found poor communication and incompetence with the coroner's office and the police in Thunder Bay was resulting in inconclusive death investigations.
They recommended enhancements. Ontario shut it down.

[Jon Thompson @JonSThompson]

@anenigma420 @LandBack1983NVF @CANADALAND Sudbury fought hard to keep post-mortem services for Northeastern Ontario and they won, but I submit that was only because of the lessons learned from how Thunder Bay and the Northwest got ganked.

[Jon Thompson @JonSThompson]

@anenigma420 @LandBack1983NVF @CANADALAND We brush by this in our Crave documentary series "Thunder Bay," how Toronto built this colossal autopsy factory and the political games with Hamilton, Thunder Bay, Sudbury, and other places to gravitate all the work into their head office.
It results in real ramifications for us.