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Judge apologizes to parents of girl left in ‘limbo’ for years after flawed Motherisk drug test – The Star
Feb. 17, 2017 A 10-year-old girl has been in “legal limbo” for nearly half her life after she was “wrongly apprehended” from her mother who had failed a flawed drug…
We’ve got hard decisions to make on Nutrition North, Carolyn Bennett says – NunatsiaqOnline
February 17, 2017 Consultation tour wraps up, minister awaits report from officials Now that her department’s consultation tour of northern communities has ended, Carolyn Bennett, the minister of Indigenous and…
Provincial funding provides midwives for Indigenous health centre in Sudbury – CBC
3-year investment to provide 40 women access to culturally appropriate child, maternity care Feb 17, 2017 The Ontario government has announced the latest recipient of its funding to establish Aboriginal…
Mi’kmaq children get help to manoeuvre through health care barriers – CBC
Feb 16, 2017 Health Canada having trouble reaching Indigenous children in need The Mi’kmaq Confederacy of P.E.I. is hiring someone to help connect First Nations children and their parents with…
Racism: The Missing Social Determinant of Health – U of Toronto
Doctors and public health practitioners have long known that the conditions in which people are born, grow, work, live, and age have a profound impact on their health. They refer…
No mental health support available for First Nations artist who died in jail, chief says – CBC
Moses (Amik) Beaver, 57, of Nibinamik First Nation, helped students express themselves through art Feb 15, 2017 A colourful First Nations artist who was “warm, outgoing and giving” died in…
B.C. investigating ‘unusual’ activity in PharmaNet system – CP
Source: The Canadian Press – Broadcast wire Feb 16, 2017 VANCOUVER – The B.C. Ministry of Health has launched an investigation into four incidents of what it calls “unusual” PharmaNet activity in which…
Indigenous water solutions: 2 steps forward, 1 step back – CBC
‘We will get there,’ Bennett says of 5-year plan to provide drinkable tap water to all communities Feb 15, 2017 Cleaning up drinking water in Indigenous communities appears to be…
Taking action on poverty – Lethbridge Herald
February 15, 2017. The Liberal government is putting the wheels in motion for the planned development of a national Poverty Reduction Strategy. Jean-Yves Duclos, Minister of Families, Children and Social…
Government must do more to address First Nations’ water woes – Rabble.ca
Neskantaga First Nation in Ontario has had to boil water since 1995. “We’re over 20 years already where our people haven’t been able to get the water they need to…
