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When a judge found Brayden Bushby guilty of manslaughter earlier this week, Jamie Monastyrski was “pleased but somehow still not fully satisfied.”
For Monastyrski, a journalism instructor and citizen of Couchiching First Nation, sentencing will play a large part in determining whether justice has truly been served in the case of Barbara Kentner, a 34-year-old Anishinaabe woman who died months after Bushby threw a trailer hitch at her, hitting her in the abdomen.
“There have been far too many unexplained deaths, cases of unreported violence and incidents of racism in Indigenous lives, and it is time we begin paying attention, seek deserved justice and acknowledge that systemic racism exists and flourishes in this country,” he writes.
Drawing upon his own experiences, family history and work as a reporter, Monastyrski touches on the violence and discrimination faced by many Indigenous people — and calls for greater action in addressing systemic racism, both in the justice system and beyond.
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