Belleville police officers Paul Fyke and Jeffrey Smith were each charged in May 2021 with assault causing bodily harm in relation to the arrest of Mario Baptiste Jr., a gas station owner from Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory. Both were acquitted of assault causing bodily harm, but Smith was found guilty of the lesser charge of assault.

A lucrative and growing cross-border human smuggling market is attracting domestic and criminal organizations looking to cash in on moving vulnerable people from Canada into the U.S., according to the senior RCMP officer who oversees border policing.

Ontario's Special Investigations Unit initially balked at investigating an alleged police assault of a Mohawk man that was captured on camera and eventually led to charges against officers from Belleville, Ont., according to recent court testimony.

The Saskatchewan government is asking the provincial court to penalize Matthew Michel, an Anishinabe man they claim breached court rules following the publication of information and video from inside a youth jail showing staff immobilizing him with a restraint device while he wept, hyperventilated and asked for death.