Journalist. Previously @CBCNews @GimletMedia
Vancouver/MST BC
Joined September 2010
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ChantelleBellrichard retweeted
RCMP Commissioner Mike Duheme on the Mounties’ 1970s “Native extremism” surveillance program:
“I express sincere regret, and while we cannot change the past, we can and must acknowledge that these actions and their impact continue to be felt today." cbc.ca/news/politics/rcmp-re…
Newly released RCMP Security Service files reveal that it amassed more than 900 pages of intelligence on the Union of B.C. Indian Chiefs (UBCIC) over more than a decade. #cdnpoli
cbc.ca/news/indigenous/bc-fi…
ChantelleBellrichard retweeted
Federal government researchers spent years building a searchable database with more than a million documents about #ResidentialSchools. But First Nations looking for lost children can’t get access to it. Read the latest story in our series.
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#RSHiddenStories #cdnpoli
ALT Students at Alberni Residential School in Port Alberni, B.C., pose for a photo in the 1930s. Researchers trying to identify children who died at the school have been fighting for access to a database that would allow them to search for records about individual children. (British Columbia Archives)
ChantelleBellrichard retweeted
Last Chance Alert!
Just one more day left to register for the Justice as Trauma Conference at the Vancouver Convention Centre!
Registration closes at midnight PST time on March 27th. Don't miss out on this vital opportunity to be part of groundbreaking discussions
Study says 72% of people w substance use + mental health disorders ended up back in jail within three years of being released #bcpoli
vancouversun.com/news/crime/…
ChantelleBellrichard retweeted
Because most universities keep the findings of misconduct investigations confidential, sexual-harassment perpetrators are often able to move to other institutions without having to disclose why they left their old jobs go.nature.com/3TFjjkj
ChantelleBellrichard retweeted
Indigenous Services Canada and Crown-Indigenous Relations intend to cut a combined $417 million from their budgets over three years, and Indigenous Services alone forecasts $4.1-billion decrease in spending over the same period. cbc.ca/news/indigenous/manit…
ChantelleBellrichard retweeted
“What chafes critics, even those who might consider themselves progressive, is that they expect reconciliation to instead look like a kind of reversal, rewinding the tape of history to some museum-diorama past.” apple.news/AmvjjRLoFRpm_7V0v…
ChantelleBellrichard retweeted
In B.C., the coroner sends 15% of suspected overdose deaths to autopsy.
In other Canadian provinces, the rate is upwards of 60%.
Forensic pathologists say it's a problem. And some families are left with painful questions that will never be answered.
thetyee.ca/News/2024/03/04/C…
ChantelleBellrichard retweeted
BREAKING: Charges against journalist Brandi Morin have been withdrawn!
“This is a moment of reckoning regarding the efforts of police to prevent journalists from covering events in the public interest,” said @caj president Brent Jolly.
ricochet.media/en/4041/obstr… #YEG #abpoli
ChantelleBellrichard retweeted
Ottawa adds funding to CBC, despite executives' claims it was asked to cut its budget trib.al/khSIH4F
ChantelleBellrichard retweeted
Thanks to the Washington Post, I found my ancestor’s remains at the Smithsonian
IndigiNews publisher @Eden_Fine_Day writes about how she found out her relative was at the institution — and her responsibility to visit and give thanks
indiginews.com/first-person/…
ChantelleBellrichard retweeted
“Right now, Spotify is risking a strike over less than $50,000,” said the Gimlet Union. “That equates to 0.0001% of the company’s $50 billion market cap.”
Scoop: The era of the massive podcast deal continues.
Alex Cooper of Call Her Daddy and the Kelce brothers are shopping their shows around hoping for eight- or nine-figure deals.
bloomberg.com/news/newslette…
ChantelleBellrichard retweeted
Signatures are piling up on an online petition to have the performance of a Canadian comedy group cancelled after it was revealed the group was selling t-shirts making fun of the Robert Pickton case. vancouver.citynews.ca/2024/0…
ChantelleBellrichard retweeted
B.C. comedy club announces cancellation of Danger Cats show after Pickton T-shirt outrage bc.ctvnews.ca/b-c-comedy-clu…
ChantelleBellrichard retweeted
Life expectancy for First Nations people in B.C. decreased by 6.6 years during the dual public health emergencies of COVID and toxic deaths from 2019-2021, compared to -1.1 years for non-FN, per @FNHA (h/t @CANdrugpolicy). Between 2015 and 2021, -7.1 years fnha.ca/about/news-and-event…
ChantelleBellrichard retweeted
By detaining journalists doing their job, police in Canada threaten the public interest, by @Brent_T_Jolly @EthanCoxMtl @dreahouston theglobeandmail.com/opinion/… via @GlobeDebate @caj #policing #cdnmedia #journalism
ChantelleBellrichard retweeted
I'm returning to my normal reporter's life today after two months of prep and international travel, a month of writing and three weeks of shameless self-promotion of my 5-part series Lethal Exports (which you can still read here: vancouversun.com/feature/let…)
