By Paola Loriggio THE CANADIAN PRESS A child welfare worker told a coroner’s inquest Tuesday that had she known an Indigenous teen in her care had a history of suicidal thoughts and self-harm, she would have tried to talk to him about it. Kim Loiselle was the child services worker with the Children’s Aid Society of Hamilton assigned to Devon Freeman starting in late 2016 until he became a ward of the Crown in June 2017. The inquest has heard that a residential program Freeman participated in shortly before going into the CAS’s care documented his suicidal ideation, which included plans to hang himself. Loiselle told the jury she didn’t receive any records from that program, and having that information would have made a difference in how she approached the

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