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Caring about human rights starts at home – Thestar.com
Oct. 12, 2016 Re: How Canada should engage China on human rights, Sept. 23 How Canada should engage China on human rights, Sept. 23 People in Canada always want to…
B.C. band to drug-test chief, councillors, staff – CBC
Oct 12, 2016 ‘Their minds have to be clear … to make proper decisions for the Nation’ Fearful of B.C.s deadly fentanyl epidemic and eager for sober guidance, a northern…
Canada Housing And Renewal Association Asks Feds To Focus On Indigenous Canadians, Poor – Huffington Post Canada
OTTAWA — Homelessness advocates are asking the federal government to focus billions in available money for housing on those who need it the most, including aboriginals and the working poor.…
City of Iqaluit should stop burning cardboard and wood: Nunavut health dept. – CBC
Oct 11, 2016 ‘It’s really important that people have clean air to breathe,’ said chief medical health officer Nunavut’s chief medical health officer is asking the City of Iqaluit to…
Opinion: Play heals, so let’s embrace creativity to mark World Mental Health Day – Edmonton Journal
October 11, 2016 Monday marked World Mental Health Day, an initiative with goals of education, awareness and advocacy. The theme this year was “psychological first aid” to support people in…
Health Canada breaches Indigenous patients’ privacy, MDs say – CBC
Oct 10, 2016 Northern Ontario doctors say there is double standard in privacy protection for First Nations people More than 20 doctors in northwestern Ontario say they will stop following…
Child battles brain cancer – Thunder Bay Chronicle Journal
Oct 7, 2016 While a five-year-old Northwestern Ontario boy battles brain cancer at a Winnipeg hospital, his family and friends are trying to raise money so that his parents can…
Aboriginals, youth overrepresented in York Region homeless population – YorkRegion.com
About 12 per cent of York Region’s homeless are Aboriginal residents, although they make up less than 1 per cent of the population, according to a new report. “Aboriginal peoples…
Bringing Care Closer to Home: Hemodialysis Now Available in KI – Netnewsledger.com
6 October 2016 Kitchenuhmayooosib Inninuwug – When Steven Louis Chapman from Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug (KI) First Nation was first diagnosed with kidney failure, he did what most other residents from remote,…
What the federal government is doing about dirty water in White Bear – APTN
October 5, 2016 On Tuesday, APTN detailed one man’s efforts to fix dirty water on White Bear First Nation in Saskatchewan. The community has been under a boil water advisory…
