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Yukon RCMP work on First Nations relations

Submitted by Nicole Seguin on Fri, 05/14/2010 - 12:27am
CBC News
 
The Yukon's top Mountie says he is working on improving the RCMP's relationships with First Nations after the 2008 death of an aboriginal man in police custody.
 
Commanding officer Supt. Peter Clark spoke to CBC News for the first time since a coroner's inquest was held in the Dec. 2, 2008, death of Raymond Silverfox, 43, a member of the Little Salmon Carmacks First Nation.
 
The inquest, which took place last month, heard that Silverfox died after he had been held at the Whitehorse RCMP detachment's drunk tank for more than 13 hours, without any medical help offered to him during that time.
 

Yukon panel tackles intoxicated persons issue

Submitted by Nicole Seguin on Fri, 05/14/2010 - 12:23am
CBC News
 
The Yukon government has asked a retired doctor and a former chief to lead a task force that will look at ways to better help those who are extremely intoxicated.
 
Longtime Whitehorse physician Bruce Beaton and James Allen, a former chief of the Champagne and Aishihik First Nations, will work with First Nation, health-care, justice and social service officials to discuss the issue of extreme alcoholism in the territory.
 
"We must consider the options for supporting people in our communities who are struggling with alcohol dependence, and in particular those whose visible dysfunctions put themselves and others at risk," Health and Social Services Minister Glenn Hart stated in a release Thursday.
 

Whitehorse man blames RCMP for apartment blaze

Submitted by Nicole Seguin on Mon, 02/22/2010 - 8:33pm
A Whitehorse man says he wants to sue the RCMP for a fire that started in his apartment hours after police had arrested him in a drug raid.
 
Steven Marada, 40, claims investigators' actions led to all of his belongings, including a number of rare Yukon antiques, being destroyed in the early Thursday morning blaze at the two-storey log skyscraper on Lambert Street.
 
Marada, who had been living on the building's second floor, was arrested after Whitehorse RCMP executed a search warrant on his apartment around 7 p.m. PT on Wednesday.
 
Police have said they seized cocaine and marijuana from the apartment.
 
Marada was in custody when the apartment caught on fire around 2 a.m. Thursday.
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