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Our lead story: nine years after the drowning of Richelle Bear’s 14-year-old son Haven Dubois in a Regina-area creek, her fight for a provincial inquest into his death is finally realized.

Our lead story: the federal NDP raises concerns in the House of Commons about the state of drinking water in Nunavut, where communities continue to be plagued with unsafe access.

Our lead story: new research finds wastewater from the Dryden Paper Mill intensified mercury contamination of the Wabigoon River. Long relied upon by the people of Grassy Narrows First Nation, the bulk of whom show symptoms of mercury poisoning.

Our lead story: three weeks in to multiple murder trial of Jeremy Skibicki—the non-Indigenous man who’s admitted to killing four Indigenous women—a Winnipeg police sergeant testifies Wednesday about a pen pal of Skibicki’s at a female prison in Nova Scotia.

Our lead story: the trial of Jeremy Skibicki—admitted killer of four Indigenous women—continues Tuesday, when a crime analyst with the Winnipeg Police Service is called to the stand.

Our lead story: Alberta RCMP have linked the mid-1970s deaths of four young women to a man named Gary Srery, a serial sexual offender and killer who died in an Idaho prison in 2011.