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How can people afford this?’: James Bay communities struggle to eat healthy – CBC
High food prices due to increasing dependence on imported goods and rise of food harvesting costs: study Sep 12, 2016 People living in remote First Nation communities on the James…
How can people afford this?’: James Bay communities struggle to eat healthy – CBC
High food prices due to increasing dependence on imported goods and rise of food harvesting costs: study Sep 12, 2016 People living in remote First Nation communities on the James…
Alta Fluoride – CP
Source: The Canadian Press – Broadcast wire Sep 8, 2016 CALGARY – Some politicians in Calgary are pushing to bring back fluoride to the city’s water system. City council voted to stop adding…
Recent suicides across Canada highlight need for national strategy – Globe and Mail
Sept 6, 2016 A recent spate of suicides across Canada underscores an urgent need for a national strategy to help prevent future deaths, according to an editorial published Tuesday in…
Canada’s ‘public health crisis’ of suicides needs funded prevention plan: CMAJ editorial -CBC
Sep 06, 2016 Suicide is 2nd-leading cause of death among 15-34 age group, behind auto accidents Canada needs a national suicide prevention strategy with concerted federal funds, medical journal editors…
Who are the Grassy Narrows 143? Health Canada won’t say – Toronto Star
Sept 7, 2016 First Nation demands federal government reveal the names of at least 143 of its residents who were identified at birth by federal health officials as being at…
BR Private Health – CP
Source: The Canadian Press – Broadcast wire Sep 7, 2016 VANCOUVER – A lawyer for a private Vancouver surgical centre says B-C government restrictions preventing access to private health care violates the constitutional…
B.C.’s health care shortcomings violate patients’ constitutional rights: lawyers – CP
Source: The Canadian Press Sep 6, 2016 By Geordon Omand THE CANADIAN PRESS VANCOUVER _ British Columbia shouldn’t be allowed to bar patients from taking action privately to meet their own medical needs…
Indian status: Why are we still hanging on? – Globe and Mail
Sept 6, 2016 Hayden King is Anishinaabe from Beausoleil First Nation on Gchi’mnissing in Huronia, Ont. He teaches in the School of Public Policy at Carleton University in Ottawa. After…
A new look at the impact alcohol has on people in northern Saskatchewan – Regina Leader-Post
September 6, 2016 Alcohol is responsible for half of all deaths in Northern Saskatchewan, believes one indigeneous lawyer. Harold Johnson, author of a new book called Firewater, takes a critical…
