Ontario’s jail guards are asking for more help after a coroner’s report detailed a suicide crisis among correctional workers and made more than two dozen recommendations to the provincial government. Thirty-four correctional workers have died by suicide over the past 15 years, according to a report by the Office of the Chief Coroner, titled In […]

British Columbia’s Ministry of Public Safety says it was unaware of the BC Coroners Service continuing a practice of attending certain death scenes remotely instead of in person after 2019. Ministry spokeswoman Tasha Schollen said in a statement that the ministry’s understanding was that in-person scene attendance had been “restored” six years ago, and it […]