Journalist. Previously @CBCNews @GimletMedia
Joined September 2010
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ChantelleBellrichard retweeted
Mar 25
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…
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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
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ChantelleBellrichard retweeted
8 Apr 2025
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)
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ChantelleBellrichard retweeted
17 Oct 2024
Resolution #1 at the AFN special assembly to accept the $47.8 billion final settlement agreement on child welfare reform did NOT pass.
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267 against.
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ChantelleBellrichard retweeted
26 Mar 2024
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
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27 Mar 2024
Study says 72% of people w substance use mental health disorders ended up back in jail within three years of being released #bcpoli
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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
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ChantelleBellrichard retweeted
14 Mar 2024
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…
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ChantelleBellrichard retweeted
12 Mar 2024
“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…
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ChantelleBellrichard retweeted
4 Mar 2024
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.
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ChantelleBellrichard retweeted
1 Mar 2024
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.
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ChantelleBellrichard retweeted
29 Feb 2024
Ottawa adds funding to CBC, despite executives' claims it was asked to cut its budget trib.al/khSIH4F
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ChantelleBellrichard retweeted
29 Feb 2024
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
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ChantelleBellrichard retweeted
29 Feb 2024
“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.”
29 Feb 2024
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.
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ChantelleBellrichard retweeted
27 Feb 2024
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…
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ChantelleBellrichard retweeted
27 Feb 2024
B.C. comedy club announces cancellation of Danger Cats show after Pickton T-shirt outrage bc.ctvnews.ca/b-c-comedy-clu…
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ChantelleBellrichard retweeted
26 Feb 2024
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…
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ChantelleBellrichard retweeted
15 Feb 2024
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
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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…)
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