WARNING: This story discusses sexual abuse, mental distress and suicide.
Over the past three weeks, the jury probing the inquest into the 2017 death of Moses Amik Beaver has heard numerous calls for better mental health care in remote First Nations and the Thunder Bay District Jail, as well as a reminder that much of what witnesses have recommended has been heard before.
Beaver, a Woodlands artist from Nibinamik, an Oji-Cree First Nation in northwestern Ontario, was 56 when he died by suicide while he was in custody. The inquest — which the Ontario Coroner’s Act says is mandatory when a person dies in custody — is entering its
