Last summer, a 24-year-old fiddle teacher walked more than 600 kilometres from his home in northern Saskatchewan to the legislature in Regina after a bill to address suicides was voted down a second time.
Tristen Durocher set up a teepee camp surrounded by photographs of people who had taken their own lives. He held a 44-day hunger strike—one day for every government legislature member who had voted against the private member’s bill.
