Five suicides in Quebec indigenous communities were avoidable: coroner's report

Five suicides that occurred in two indigenous communities in 2015 were avoidable, a Quebec coroner said Saturday in a report that compared Canada's reserve system to apartheid and suggested it was at the root of many of the communities' wider struggles.

Bernard Lefrancois' report was the result of a public inquiry that was ordered in January 2016 after four women and one man died by suicide in a nine-month period.

The victims ranged in age from 18 to 46 and all died between February and October of 2015 in the communities of Uashat mak Mani-Utenam and Kawawachikamach, on Quebec's North Shore.

http://www.nationalobserver.com/2017/01/15/news/five-suicides-quebec-indigenous-communities-were-avoidable-coroners-report