How Thunder Bay police investigated their own Indigenous board chair – Ricochet Media
May 4 2026
Former Thunder Bay Police Service lawyer Holly Walbourne and her counsel Frank Addario outside of the Thunder Bay Courthouse in April. A court found Walbourne not guilty of obstruction and breach of trust for misleading an OCPC probe into the Morriseau Investigation. Photo by Jon Thompson
Editors’ note: Jon Thompson’s name is synonymous with the journalism that has exposed a hotbed of systemic racism and misconduct in the Thunder Bay Police Service. He’s been covering these issues for more than a decade, and took home a Gemini Award for his role in the Crave docu-series Thunder Bay. More recently, he’s spent weeks in court observing testimony, and days pouring over documents, to piece together this story. It’s rare to get this kind of insight into the inner workings of a Canadian police force, rarer still to see inside a scandal of this magnitude.
