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Alone and Cold
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Alone and Cold
This report completes the work initially undertaken to investigate and report on the circumstances of the death of Frank Paul in December 1998, and the official reponse to his death.
Davies Commission Inquiry Into the Death of Frank Paul
This is the interim report of the Commission of Inquiry, headed by William H. Davis, Q.C., into the death of Frank Paul in Vancouver, British Columbia in 1998. Frank Paul was a Mi'kmaq man who suffered from alcoholism and mental illness and was living homeless on the streets of Vancouver. The report chronicles Mr. Paul's final days when he was picked up by the police and then refused admittance to the jail despite his obvious distressed condition. The report then focuses on the activities of officers of the Vancouver Police Department (VPD) and of other public bodies and examines their policies and practices as they relate to homeless chronic alcoholics.
Alone and Cold
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Dying from Improvement
No matter where in Canada they occur, inquiries and inquests into untimely Indigenous deaths in state custody often tell the same story. Repeating details of fatty livers, mental illness, alcoholic belligerence, and a mysterious incapacity to cope with modern life, the legal proceedings declare that there are no villains here, only inevitable casualties of Indigenous life. But what about a sixty-seven-year-old man who dies in a hospital in police custody with a large, visible, purple boot print on his chest? Or a barely conscious, alcoholic older man, dropped off by police in a dark alley on a cold Vancouver night? Or Saskatoon’s infamous and lethal starlight tours, whose victims were left...
Canadian Annual Review of Politics and Public Affairs 2009
The Canadian Annual Review of Politics and Public Affairs is an acclaimed series that offers informed commentary on important national events and considers their significance in local and international contexts. The 2009 instalment of the series covers the continuation of 2008’s economic and political crises from the end of Parliament’s first prorogation at the beginning of the year to the start of its unprecedented second prorogation at the end, including the federal Economic Action Plan and bailouts for the automotive and banking sectors. Other topics include the investigation of the abuse of detainees in Afghanistan and reactions across Canada to the threat of H1N1 swine flu. The volume also contains full coverage of federal, provincial, First Nations, and municipal affairs, including British Columbia’s general election.
