Ryan Cooke

A man abused by a notorious Catholic priest is joining others in calling on the church to release its records related to a controversial therapy centre in Ontario, where abusive priests were sent for decades. His abuser was sent there in 1992, and returned to work for nearly 20 years.

Roxanne Greene said she first tried to report her ex-husband to police in 2009, but couldn't find an officer willing to listen to her. Seventeen years later, the matter finally made it to a public complaints hearing in St. John's.

Thunderheart Tshakapesh spent nearly two years in the care of the province before being released after his 16th birthday. He was dead within a month. His passing kicked off a movement that led to a public inquiry.

The executive director of the World Submarine Organization says countries like Canada must make submersible regulations as simple as possible, or companies will try to find "loopholes" in the future.

OceanGate interacted with numerous federal departments and agencies in Canada, yet was not held to any standards by federal regulators. Canada's Transportation Safety Board has made six recommendations aimed at closing those gaps.

Fifteen-year-old Wally Rich died in his room at the Labrador Group Home in May of 2020. The facility was not licenced by the province at the time, a public inquiry heard, and had failed to meet a number of standards in monthly audits.

Faith Rich experienced both sides of the child protection system — as a child, and a parent. Her lawyer says systemic challenges and a culture of disempowerment caused irreparable harm, including in the final days of her life.

James Poker aged out of the system at 16 and was abruptly released from a treatment facility in Saskatchewan. His father had no idea until he saw him on the streets of their remote northern community of Natuashish.

The lawyer for the family of deceased Innu teen Kirby Mistenapeo says child protection officials in Newfoundland and Labrador were aware that his primary caregiver was drinking on the job — one of the many alleged systemic failings raised on Thursday.

Jonathan Patten has been given a three-year federal sentence along with a three-year driving prohibition for a deadly crash that killed father-to-be Nicholas Fong in 2024.