By The Canadian Press \u00a005\/06\/2024\u00a0 More than three years after her son’s death, Suzanne Chemaganish still can’t understand how he could have been allowed to die in the cold outside a homeless shelter in a big city like Montreal. Chemaganish told a coroner’s inquest on Wednesday her son Raphael Andr\u00e9 grew up in the woods with his Innu family in northern Quebec and was used to cold weather. She said that in her village, people aren’t left outside in winter. “In our community, it\u2019s cold,” she said. “When someone knocks, we open the door and let them in.\u201d Coroner St\u00e9phanie Gamache is presiding over the inquest into the death of Andr\u00e9, who was originally from Matimekush-Lac John, near the Labrador boundary. He was 51 when he died in January 2021… <\/p>\n
By The Canadian Press \u00a005\/06\/2024\u00a0 More than three years after her son’s death, Suzanne Chemaganish still can’t understand how he could have been allowed to die in the cold outside a homeless shelter in a big city like Montreal. Chemaganish told a coroner’s inquest on Wednesday her son Raphael Andr\u00e9 grew up in the woods with his Innu family in northern Quebec and was used to cold weather. She said that in her village, people aren’t left outside in winter. “In our community, it\u2019s cold,” she said. “When someone knocks, we open the door and let them in.\u201d Coroner St\u00e9phanie Gamache is presiding over the inquest into the death of Andr\u00e9, who was originally from Matimekush-Lac John, near the Labrador boundary. He was 51 when he died in January 2021... <\/p>\n