Thunder Bay

Thunder Bay is 2018 podcast hosted by Ryan McMahon on the Canadaland network. The podcast critiques the government and police responses to systemic racism and violence directed toward Indigenous peoples in the northern Ontario town of Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada. Production The podcast builds on information contained in the 2017 book Seven Fallen Feathers by investigative journalist Tanya Talaga of The Toronto Star. Seven Fallen Feathers documents the unexplained deaths of seven Indigenous youth, all found in rivers close to Thunder Bay. The podcast is presented in five parts, produced by Canadaland, and hosted McMahon, who grew up near Thunder Bay. The production costs of the show were crowd-funded via Patreon. Synopsis The podcast documents systemic racism and corruption in Thunder Bay and the unexplained deaths of young Indigenous people, whose bodies were found in the Kaministiquia and McIntyre Rivers. It documents Thunder Bay Mayor Keith Hobbs' rejection of the Ontario Human Rights Commission concerns about the lack of municipal support for the Indigenous population in the town. It discusses the killing of local Indigenous woman, Barbara Kentner. The local police chief and a former Ontario Crown Prosecutor are also criticised.