VANCOUVER- British Columbia must do things differently to break the cycle where Indigenous people comprise five per cent of the population but about 30 per cent of those incarcerated, Premier David Eby and First Nations leaders said Thursday. “So much of this work is at its most acute in our justice system,” Eby said at a news conference announcing the establishment of five new Indigenous justice centres over the past year. The centres are part of the government’s work with the First Nations Justice Council to build safer communities and help change lives, he said at the new Vancouver facility. B.C. now has nine such centres, with the latest facilities opening in Vancouver, Victoria, Nanaimo, Surrey and Kelowna. They were already in operation in Chilliwack, Prince Rupert, Prince George and…
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