Episode 256: Colten Boushie was a 22-year-old Indigenous man from the Red Pheasant First Nation in Saskatchewan, Canada, who was shot and killed on a farm near Biggar, Saskatchewan, on August 9, 2016. His death received widespread attention and led to a national conversation in Canada about systemic racism and the treatment of Indigenous peoples in the criminal justice system. The trial and acquittal of the farmer who was charged with Boushie’s death, a man named Gerald Stanley, also sparked controversy and led to calls for reforms in the Canadian justice system.

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Red Pheasant Cree Nation – A prospering Nation

2017 SKQB 366 (CanLII) | R v Stanley | CanLII

2017 SKQB 367 (CanLII) | R v Stanley | CanLII

2018 SKQB 27 (CanLII) | R v Stanley | CanLII

Colten’s friend Eric talking about the shooting | Twitter

Victim, friends needed help with flat tire before farmyard shooting: witness | 650 CKOM

DocumentCloud | FSIN Media Release

The night Colten Boushie died | The Globe and Mail

The Legal Trial of Gerald Stanley - a second look at the case through the lens of law | CanLII Connects

CRCC Final Report on the Death of Colten Boushie

‘Have to keep talking about it,’ says Boushie’s mother, five years after Stanley acquittal | Star Phoenix

Colten Boushie, Gerald Stanley and a case that’s hard to defend | The Star

Read ‘The Rodney King of Western Canada’: Killing of Indigenous Man Heads to Trial Online

Who was Colten Boushie? | CBC News

Colten Boushie Archives - APTN News

‘White Lives Matter’ signs show up in North Battleford Saskatchewan

Debbie Baptiste | Canada’s National Observer: News & Analysis

Brad Wall - Racism has no place in Saskatchewan. | Facebook

We Will Stand Up | CBC Docs POV |YouTube

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