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Neurological and birth defects haunt Wabaseemoong First Nation, decades after mercury dumping – CBC
Sep 20, 2016 People in community born without toes, an extra thumb, but few are compensated Forty-five years ago, mercury pollution from a pulp and paper mill poisoned hundreds of…
I wasn’t allowed to kiss my own grandchildren’: Sask. doctors call for emergency response to HIV crisis – StarPhoenix
Doctors from across Saskatchewan say the province’s rates of HIV infections have reached a critical point and a state of emergency should be declared. Saskatchewan’s HIV rates are double the…
Diabetes epidemic in indigenous populations’ highlights disparity – CBC
‘The alarm was on. People started working on it. But somehow the snooze button got pressed’ Sep 19, 2016 About eight in 10 Indigenous Canadians who are young adults will…
Suicide Prevention: I Want Other Families To Know What Ours Didn’t – Huffington Post Canada
Chronic Health Conditions, Inflammation And Major Depressive Disorder Imagine living with asthma (inflammatory disorder) and anaphylaxis (autoimmune disorder) almost from the time you were born. Then imagine growing up and…
Chris Selley: Shining a light on aboriginal suicides – National Post
September 15, 2016 The demand for national strategies to combat every problem under the sun is a signature feature of the Canadian political landscape, and it can be wearisome. Not…
‘A First World country with Third World rates’: Saskatchewan at the epicentre of HIV in Canada – National Post
Sept 15, 2016 PRINCE ALBERT, Sask. — Saskatchewan is one of the few places in the industrialized world where people are still dying from AIDS and HIV. The province has…
Deadly Record: Inside Saskatchewan’s HIV crisis – Regina Leader-Post
Something as simple as the common cold could kill Lauren Cardinal. A friend of hers died because he refused to see a doctor and get an abscessed tooth removed. In…
Saskatoon Health Region ‘regrets’ to announce its cutting jobs of about 70 people – CP
Source: The Canadian Press Sep 15, 2016 SASKATOON _ The Saskatoon Health Region has announced it is cutting 70 jobs. It says in a news release Thursday that both union and non-union jobs…
Trudeau hosts AIDS conference starting today in Montreal – CP
Source: The Canadian Press Sep 16, 2016 OTTAWA _ A conference that hopes to find ways to raise $13 billion U.S. to replenish the Global Fund in its fight against AIDS begins today…
Sami Blood addresses the assimilation of indigenous children in Scandinavia – Globe and Mail
Sep. 14, 2016 As Amanda Kernell’s first feature-length film, Sami Blood, demonstrates, measures of indoctrination and assimilation used against indigenous people are not territorially exclusive: They traverse the world over,…
