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Critical incidents: Provincial report details deaths, mishaps, gaps in First Nations care – CBC
Health-care system ‘doesn’t meet the needs of a lot of Northern Manitoba First Nations’: Sheila North A patient went to a federal nursing station with jaundice and in respiratory distress,…
Rural medicine: How a gamble to bring in doctors is paying off – Globe and Mail
January 14, 2018 Twelve years after the first class began at The Northern Ontario School of Medicine, many remote communities have ‘gone from crisis mode to planning mode’ thanks to…
Researchers seek out 2007-08 Inuit health survey participants – Nunatsiaq Online
“Informed consent is a critical part of the landmark research project” January 15, 2018 If you’re one of the 2,500 people from Nunavut, Nunatsiavut or the Inuvialuit settlement region who…
We are dying’: Maskwacis community members overwhelmed by suicides – CBC
Emily Soosay is grieving the loss of her 22-year-old son Luwen Soosay-Morin, who took his life two days before Christmas. Saturday she attended a vigil for a celebration of life…
Survivors of St. Anne’s Residential School LIVE – CBC
Read More: http://www.cbc.ca/news/survivors-of-st-anne-s-residential-school-live-1.4487612…
Chronic pain patients need services beyond just opioids: B.C. advocate – CP
Source: The Canadian Press Jan 15, 2018 By Camille Bains THE CANADIAN PRESS VANCOUVER _ People who live with chronic pain need options beyond prescription opioids, and it’s up to the British Columbia…
Nova Scotia First Nation grappling with water woes to build new treatment plant – CP
Source: The Canadian Press Jan 12, 2018 CHAPEL ISLAND, N.S. _ A Nova Scotia Mi’kmaq community that has dealt for more than a decade with brown and foul-smelling water should see construction begin…
New water treatment plant ‘definitely coming’ for Potlotek First Nation after years of brown water – CBC
We’ve been waiting 40 years for this,’ says Chief Wilbert Marshall Jan 12, 2018 The Mi’kmaq community of Potlotek in Nova Scotia has signed documents to begin construction on a…
No state of emergency on Alberta First Nation reeling from number of suicides – APTN News
January 11, 2018 Maskwacis is reeling after several people died by suicide in the weeks leading up to the holiday season. There have been eight deaths since late November, all…
Some remote Manitoba First Nations slated to get high-speed internet still don’t have drinkable water – CBC
$84M investment will speed up connections for 48 First Nations, feds say, but some under boil-water advisories Jan 10, 2018 More than 100 rural communities and remote First Nations are…
