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Pilots take flight as Manitoba’s first female Indigenous medevac team – CTV News
March 8, 2018 Two Manitoba women teamed up this week to make aviation history. Captain Robyn Shlachetka, 32, and first officer Raven Beardy, 27, formed what’s believed to be the…
Métis to hold Prince George poverty reduction session – Prince George Citizen
March 7, 2018 Parallel to regional poverty reduction strategy meetings that have been held across the province, the Métis Nation of B.C. is holding its own series of consultations in…
William Watson: Public health care murders Aboriginals, the CBC reports, without really checking – Financial Post
The story focuses on the Nishnawbe Aski Nation in northern Ontario and finds Wapekeka, a fly-in community of 400 people, is slightly underserved in terms of health care One of…
Changes needed to ensure people without medicare cards always get treated, doctors say – CBC
Health Minister Gaétan Barrette insists the rule at the ER is simple: ‘You’ll be treated. Period.’ Mar 07, 2018 Kimberly Gloade wasn’t the first Indigenous person without a medicare card…
New vaccine targets pneumonia, blood poisoning, meningitis among children in Canada’s North – CBC
Scientists seek funding for clinical trials, hoping to make vaccine available by 2022 Mar 07, 2018 Federal researchers have collaborated to develop a preventative vaccine for a potentially deadly bacteria…
MNO Credit River Métis Council gifted healing blankets to Métis families and women’s shelters – MNO
A number of volunteers chipped in during a Métis Nation of Ontario (MNO) Credit River Métis Council (CRMC) workshop to make 18 healing blankets to be distributed to Métis families…
Water advisories removed in Slate Falls with opening of new treatment plant – Tbnewswatch.com
Opening of new water treatment plant has resulted in 11 long-term drinking water advisories being lifted in Slate Falls First Nation. SLATE FALLS FIRST NATION, Ont. – Long-term drinking water…
11 ways UCalgary researchers are shaping Canadians’ health-care future – U Calgary Today
CIHR grants allow O’Brien Institute researchers to tackle everything from ICU delirium to the fight against a deadly bacteria Changing the patient-physician dynamic, empowering Indigenous communities, weaning arthritis patients off…
Philpott wants to see health care ‘by Inuit, for Inuit’ – National Observer
March 5th 2018 Indigenous Services Minister Jane Philpott is hoping to deliver more health care closer to northern Indigenous communities, in order to address a crisis leaving Inuit women vulnerable…
Time to get serious about water quality in First Nations communities – Winnipeg Sun
Pondering the crisis so many First Nations communities face over water quality, you can’t help but think of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge: “Water, water,…
