Hilary Thomson

Photo: Town of Illulissat It’s 5:30am. The sun, that barely dipped bellow the horizon all night is rising over the Baffin Bay. I take a deep breath and taste the cool, salty air of the sea. I’m aboard the Ocean Endeavour, Adventure Canada’s 200 passenger ship, about half-way through [...]

Photo credit: Evan Radford/980 CJME Heather Gray is out of options. She is extremely suicidal and says “suicide brain” clouds every part of her life. This is stemming from the abuses she faced during her employment with the Regina Police Service (RPS) and her 20-year battle to get compensation [...]

When Nadia Robinson woke up on June 28, 2015, she was happy. She poured herself a cup of coffee and made a Facebook status saying so. Her oldest son had just graduated from high school and she and her family had moved into a new home in Riverside South, Ottawa. Although she was not with the father of [...]

Photo by Hilary Thomson Nancy Peckford sits in a McDonalds in Kemptville, just outside Ottawa. It’s a warm evening in June and she has given up taking her three children to the park to focus on writing the proposal for what would be an unprecedented program in Canada. Sipping on coffee she funnels [...]

Eighteen-year-old Connor O’Callaghan lay unconscious on the side of Rideau River Road in North Grenville. He had overdosed on cocaine. His body was essentially lifeless, except for thud of his heart that was still beating inside his chest. His friends had dumped him at the side of the road while [...]

Since the article came out in Ottawa Life Magazine (OLM) in the fall about bullying and harassment in the Regina Police Service things have gone from bad to worse for the article’s subject, Heather Gray. When Gray first met with Regina Police Chief Evan Bray back in May 2018, she was encouraged [...]

Photo credit: Jackie Hall Photography There has been a lot in the news the past few years about harassment and bullying in the RCMP. In 2017, more than 3,100 women working for the RCMP won a $100-million class action lawsuit and an apology from RCMP Commissioner Bob Paulson for harassment faced for [...]

Photo credit: Jackie Hall Photography There has been a lot in the news over the past few years about harassment and bullying in the RCMP. In 2017, more than 3,100 women working for the RCMP won a $100 million class action law suit and an apology from RCMP Commissioner Bob Paulson for harassment they [...]