One day after a Halifax university student, Loretta Saunders went missing, hundreds of demonstrators in Toronto held the annual Strawberry Ceremony in honour of the missing and murdered Aboriginal women in Canada.
The jury sifted through 220 proposed recommendations, and yesterday settled on 74, including: refinements in police training to help officers better understand mental illness and associated behavior; training in verbal de-escalation of confrontations with the mentally ill; and investigation into better defensive equipment for police, like shields and body-worn cameras.