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Doug Diaczuk

Doug Diaczuk

Doug Diaczuk is a reporter and award-winning author from Thunder Bay. He has a master’s degree in English from Lakehead University and has been working as a freelance and full-time reporter for more than seven years. His work has been published in Geist, SubTerrain, and Quill and Quire Magazine. Doug has been a member of the Tbnewswatch team since 2016 and covers stories relating to arts and entertainment, community events, health care, and court.

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Recent Work by Doug

Twinning of Highway 11/17 between Kakabeka and city moves to next phase

Twinning of Highway 11/17 between Kakabeka and city moves to next phase

The next phase of the twinning project will involve establishing the specific route in the designated route area, as well as determining drainage, structural, and illumination needs, and environmental assessments
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UPDATED: Thunder Bay Police Service under inspection

UPDATED: Thunder Bay Police Service under inspection

Inspector General of Policing Ryan Teschner says he is committed to ensuring residents of Thunder Bay and the Indigenous population receive accountable policing.
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Lindsey Coyle at low risk to reoffend, says parole board

Lindsey Coyle at low risk to reoffend, says parole board

Lindsey Coyle will be released on day parole in September after serving seven months of a two-year sentence for criminal negligence causing death in connection to the death of 76-year-old Hermina Fletcher.
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Preliminary hearing opens for one of three accused in shooting death

Preliminary hearing opens for one of three accused in shooting death

Javon Myers of Toronto is facing first-degree murder charges in connection with the 2022 shooting death of 24-year-old Michael Park, while charges against co-accused Greg Meshake of Thunder Bay have been withdrawn.
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Lindsey Coyle ordered to pay damages to the Fletcher family

Lindsey Coyle ordered to pay damages to the Fletcher family

Coyle is currently serving a two-year sentence after pleading guilty to criminal negligence causing death for altering medication records of Hermina Fletcher, a patient at La Verendrye Hospital in 2015, to steal morphine.
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Lindsey Coyle sentenced to two years

Lindsey Coyle sentenced to two years

Former Fort Frances nurse, Lindsey Coyle, pleaded guilty in August 2022 to criminal negligence causing death for altering the medication administration record of 76-year-old Hermina Fletcher to steal morphine, resulting in Fletcher's death in January 2015.
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Family of Hermina Fletcher say Riverside advertisement ‘deeply offensive’

Family of Hermina Fletcher say Riverside advertisement ‘deeply offensive’

An advertisement in a Fort Frances newspaper by Riverside Health Care is being questioned by the family of Hermina Fletcher, who died in a Riverside hospital after former nurse Lindsey Coyle altered her medication administration report to steal morphine.
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Gary Lamont sentenced to 5 years for Norval Morrisseau forgeries

Gary Lamont sentenced to 5 years for Norval Morrisseau forgeries

Gary Lamont had pleaded guilty to forgery and defrauding the public above $5,000 for signing artist Norval Morrisseau’s name to fraudulent works of art.
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$13M settlement in historic sexual abuse class action end of ‘long journey’ for survivors

$13M settlement in historic sexual abuse class action end of ‘long journey’ for survivors

Survivors of sexual abuse by Ralph Rowe, who was a priest and Scout leader between 1975 and 1985 in remote northern First Nations communities, say the settlement will not take away the pain or trauma but it is one of the final chapters in what has been a long journey
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Mining minister speaks of ‘passion and optimism’ at Cen-Can Expo

Mining minister speaks of ‘passion and optimism’ at Cen-Can Expo

Ontario Mines Minister George Pirie spoke at the Cen-Can Resources Expo about the future of mining in Northwestern Ontario
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