The inquest report into Stewart's death has not yet been released on the MB court website, though at least part of the inquest was held in April of last year, per CBC reporting.

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Eishia was one of three Indigenous people fatally shot by Winnipeg Police Service officers over ten days in April, 2020. The others were Jason Collins, 36, and Stewart Andrews, 22. The inquest into Jason's death, concluded last year, made no recommendations.
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I can't say I have good answers for those good questions, but my understanding is that the blocking, at the very least, hasn't triggered any reduction in engagement for FB/Instagram, so for Meta there hasn't been any downside to doing it.

I hadn't seen that! Am going to check out the story.

Love that you wrote that story – I missed it at the time.

I wrote about this leading up to the election, and this blew my mind: "According to a MEO report from August 2024, only 22 per cent of Canadians knew that news was banned on Facebook and Instagram. At that point, the ban had been in place for a year." www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews...

"Three quarters of the Canadian public are unaware of the ban. Only 22% of Canadians know that news is banned on Facebook and Instagram. Even among users of the platforms and those who say they get news from the platform, a majority do not know about the ban."

[From 2024]

meo.ca/work/old-new...

"Amid the news void, Canada Proud and dozens of other partisan pages are rising in popularity on Facebook and Instagram before the election. At the same time, cryptocurrency scams and ads that mimic legitimate news sources have proliferated on the platforms."

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/t...