Accountability demanded in wake of newlywed B.C. Indigenous man’s death in care

More than 80 people packed into a room in Duncan’s Cowichan Community Centre on Dec. 8, gathering in grief, anger and solidarity to support the family of Leonard Sylvester III.
Sylvester a 38-year-old member of the region’s Penelakut First Nation died following what his widow describes as a cascade of medical failures at Cowichan District Hospital and Victoria General Hospital.
The event brought together grieving family members, Indigenous leaders, health advocates and representative