Key recommendations ignored: Beaudin

 By Julia Archelene Magsombol  Local Journalism Initiative Reporter Kim Beaudin, national vice-chief of the Congress of Aboriginal Peoples (CAP), attended the final inquest of Myles Sanderson last week, but unfortunately he felt unheard. “When the recommendations came down, people were asked for their comments . . . I didn’t have an opportunity to address those,” Beaudin said. The inquest shone a light on Sanderson’s case in which the troubled man killed 11 people and injured 17 others during a stabbing spree on James Smith Cree Nation in 2022. Beaudin described how many people were at Sanderson’s inquest, and how the recommendations he made through CAP weren’t included or addressed. “There should have been a national inquiry. Why are we into this? What happened?” From past interviews, it was known that Sanderson…

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