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Organizations representing Inuit have released their Inuit-specific plan for ending prevalent violence against women, girls and 2SLGBTQQIA+ people. It makes specific calls to action for federal, provincial and territorial governments and for Inuit organizations.
But there s a caution: while vaccine demand has been high, the next portion of the population could be harder to reach.
The first part of an immunization program is always the easiest, said Scott Halperin, director of the Canadian Center for Vaccinology. The latter parts where you re really trying to achieve those last few, that s harder, because you re trying to win hearts and minds of people who are much more doubtful, and we need to put in that energy in order to get that population, he said.
Diners in the sky
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People have dinner sitting on a platform raised by a crane to a height of 50 metres and silhouetted against the sun as they participate in Dinner in the Sky in St. Petersburg, Russia, on Wednesday.
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Minister of Crown-Indigenous Relations Carolyn Bennett, the National Family and Survivors Circle and Indigenous organizations mark the release of the national action plan in response to the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls.
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