The Sixties Scoop was a misguided Canadian government effort to assimilate Indigenous kids by taking them from their families, language and culture and adopting them out to other families. For those involved, the effects were often devastating. tinyurl.com/TheBoyWithTwoNames
WATCH: Video obtained by The London Free Press shows a Pride flag, symbolic of LGBTQ inclusion, being torn down on Tuesday at Sir Frederick Banting secondary school in London. More coverage: https://tinyurl.com/5hxwrvcb
The 2023 class being inducted into the London Music Hall of Fame has been announced ahead of a celebration during the Forest City London Music Awards on June 18. https://tinyurl.com/2p9ep55x
In December 2019, provincial police announced a combined 228 charges against 28 people in Operation Hobart, a two-year probe of an alleged illegal gambling ring police contend was run by Hells Angels bikers and a Toronto crime family.
But the high-profile bust fizzled in the court system. https://tinyurl.com/OperationHobart
The Boy With Two Names
ICYMI: The boy with two names: A scattered family, a nation's shame, a death in jail https://tinyurl.com/TheBoyWithTwoNames
Story by: Randy Richmond
Video by: Calvi Leon
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This 15,000-word examination of the Sixties Scoop — the large-scale apprehension of Indigenous children and subsequent adoption by mostly non-Indigenous families across Canada and the United States — sprawls through decades and across much of the country.
It tells the story of a national shame borne of now-discredited government policy (although many argue it continues still under a different name) through the lens of a difficult life and one fractured family.
WATCH: Acting London police Chief Trish McIntyre said at a news conference two officers were injured by a single shot from a long gun at a standoff on Saturday. Read the full story here: https://tinyurl.com/muv7tuja
WOSSAA swim meet was held Wednesday at the Canada Games Aquatic Centre in London and Free Press photographer Mike Hensen was there to catch the action!
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True Crime Byline podcast: Dellen Millard Almost Got Away with Murder
Adrian Humphreys speaks with host Kathleen Goldhar about the victims, the killers, their trials and his jailhouse interviews in this episode of True Crime Byline
Download Episode 6, 𝘋𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘯 𝘔𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘢𝘳𝘥 𝘈𝘭𝘮𝘰𝘴𝘵 𝘎𝘰𝘵 𝘈𝘸𝘢𝘺 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘔𝘶𝘳𝘥𝘦𝘳, today on your favourite #podcast app here: https://bit.ly/3bBrc6I
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True Crime Byline: Reporting on Lev Tahor with Jason Madger
In the latest episode of True Crime Byline, Gazette reporter Jason Magder reflects back on what it was like to cover the ultra-Orthodox Jewish sect as they fled authorities.
True Crime Byline is a new podcast by Postmedia and Antica Productions. In each episode, host Kathleen Goldhar talks to journalists about the cases that made their careers, changed the way they see the world and continue to haunt them.
Download Episode 5, 𝘙𝘦𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘰𝘯 𝘓𝘦𝘷 𝘛𝘢𝘩𝘰𝘳 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘑𝘢𝘴𝘰𝘯 𝘔𝘢𝘥𝘨𝘦𝘳 today on your favourite podcast app here: https://bit.ly/3cw4VYi
