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Herb Gratton: Woman and Brendan Kennedy

herb gratton: She might as well have been disappeared in a dictatorship for all the detail the agency provided, according to Toronto Star. As the Star's Brendan Kennedy reported, the CBSA would not disclose the woman's identity, country of origin or her cause of death. A 50-year-old woman had died in a maximum-security jail in Milton. We now know the woman was Teresa Michelle Gratton, a permanent resident of Canada from the United States, a mother of three sons and wife to Herb Gratton, her partner of 32 years. The circumstances of her imprisonment and death are unconscionable on a number of levels. We also know she was being held indefinitely in a maximum-security prison, based on the decision of one border services officer, though she did not pose a danger to anyone. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.