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Saskatchewan stabbing inquest concludes, offering comfort and direction

Jury, coroner make 29 recommendations aimed at police and First Nations
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Darryl Burns, left to right, whose sister Gloria was one of the people killed on James Smith Cree Nation, Chelsey Stonestand, a representative of Burns’ family, and Brian (Buggy) Burns, whose wife, Bonnie, and son, Gregory, were both killed, speaks to media following the final day of the public coroner’s inquest into the mass stabbings that happened on James Smith Cree Nation in 2022 in Melfort, Sask. on Wednesday, January 31, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Liam Richards

Darryl Burns gripped a photo of his sister Gloria, who was killed in a stabbing rampage on a Saskatchewan First Nation, after hearing the more than two dozen sweeping recommendations issued by a coroner’s inquest into the tragedy.

“If my sister’s death means something positive is going to come out of this, then her legacy is going to live on,” Burns said Wednesday in Melfort, Sask.,

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