Newly appointed Bureau des Enquêtes Indépendantes director Brigitte Bishop is the former inspector general for the City of Montreal, and was a Crown prosecutor for 27 years. (Photo courtesy of Bureau des Enquêtes Indépendantes)
Brigitte Bishop looking to improve on language, culture barriers, using liaison
The new director of Quebec’s independent police watchdog says she wants to change the way the Bureau des Enquêtes Indépendantes carries out investigations in Nunavik.
Dinah Pikuyak holds a sign demanding justice for missing and murdered Indigenous women at Iqaluit’s Red Dress Day march Monday. Approximately 75 people attended on the May 5 National Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls and Two-Spirit-Plus people. “I’m here on behalf of my niece Savanna who was murdered in Ottawa when she went for a nursing program,” she said. Savanna Pikuyak, 22, was murdered in Ottawa on Sept. 11, 2022, a week after she moved to Ottawa from Sanirajak. (Photo by Daron Letts)