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Safe water project expanded – The Chronicle Journal
October 13, 2016 An unique initiative that helps provides safe drinking water for indigenous communities in Northern Ontario is expanding. The Keewaytinook Okimakanak’s Safe Water Project will expand to an…
Highlights from Sunrise meeting – Yorkton This Week
October 13, 2016 The Sunrise Health Region Board met for its regular monthly meeting, which was held in Yorkton, last Wednesday. Suann Laurent, President and Chief Executive Officer of SHR…
Michael Wilson Health Accord must address growing mental health crisis in Canada – The Globe and Mail
Oct. 13, 2016 As the federal, provincial and territorial governments work toward a new Health Accord, one thing is apparent – there must be a significant infusion of new money…
GreenUP accepting donations of warm clothes for northern First Nations – The Peterborough Examiner
October 13, 2016 The Kawartha Truth and Reconciliation Support Group has partnered with GreenUP for a fall coat drive aimed at gathering winter clothes for First Nations in Northern Ontario.…
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…
