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The support includes two crisis counsellors Redhead says have already been in the community for months.  "This is not additional support," he said. "Its just that same rhetoric that were continuing to hear from the government."   Mobile crisis teams from Manitoba Keewatinowi Okimakanak, which represents northern Manitoba First Nations, and the Keewatin Tribal Council are also being flown into the community, which is about 745 kilometres northeast of Winnipeg. Indigenous Services Minister ...

Redhead said his own sister, a 32-year-old mother of four, killed herself earlier this month. When there is one death by suicide in a community, it can often cause a "domino effect" in which more people attempt it, the chief said. "We are concerned about that." Crisis teams from Manitoba Keewatinowi Okimakanak, which represents northern First Nations, and Keewatin Tribal Council were heading to the community. The chief called for immediate help from the federal government, including mental-he...

Chief Eric Redhead spoke with media via Zoom on Tuesday afternoon. (Screenshot) Article continues below advertisement ↴ Shamattawa First Nation is under a declared state of emergency after a single mother died by suicide recently and a young child attempted suicide. Chief Eric Redhead made the declaration on Tuesday, May 18. “Today we are announcing a state of emergency in Shamattawa First Nation,” says Chief Redhead in a press release. “We are currently facing a suicide crisis in...

Later, key external resources — both people and documents — were discovered that could have been useful to the team, including the fact there is a provincial lead on isolation accommodations, the document says. A spokesperson from Shared Health says the provincial health organization worked remotely with the military, sharing relevant documents and experience. "I know there at the beginning they [the military] didnt really know what to do, like how to run the [alternate isolation accommodat...

Posted: Mar 10, 2021 10:30 AM ET | Last Updated: March 11 A sign in Neskantaga First Nation, where people have been living with a long-term drinking water advisory for 26 years.(Olivia Stefanovich/CBC) Indigenous Services Minister Marc Miller recommitted the federal government Wednesday to its goal of lifting all long-term drinking water advisories on First Nations reserves — but didnt offer a timeline for completing the work.  With 58 active advisories remaining in 38 communities, the Li...

Sioux Valley Dakota Nation borders the heavily travelled Trans-Canada Highway in western Manitoba, yet the community held back waves of COVID-19 cases that swept the area last year. In the opposite corner of the province, Shamattawa First Nation, a remote fly-in community in northeastern Manitoba, had an outbreak so severe that the Canadian military was flown in to help after one-third of the 1,500 residents were infected. MIKE DEAL / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS COVID-19 checkstops on the roads i...

Manitoba First Nations communities with personal care homes are first in line to receive their share...

Shamattawa chief frustrated as First Nation rapid response team leaves community amid COVID-19 outbreak As a First Nations rapid response team pulls out of Shamattawa First Nation in northeastern Manitoba, the community’s chief says now isn’t the time to withdraw testing capacity from a reserve battling a growing COVID-19 outbreak. Social Sharing CBC News · Posted: Dec 19, 2020 9:17 PM CT | Last Updated: December 20, 2020 Shamattawa First Nation Chief Eric Redhead said widespread testing...

Posted: Dec 14, 2020 5:00 AM CT | Last Updated: December 15, 2020 Military supports fight against COVID-19 in Shamattawa First Nation The National4 months ago 2:01 Roughly 60 members of the military are in northern Manitoba’s Shamattawa First Nation to help the small fly-in community fight the COVID-19 outbreak that has touched nearly every one of the 1,300 residents.2:01 In the frigid cold, the people of Shamattawa First Nation are waging a battle against COVID-19. On the front lines, 18-...

The latest on the coronavirus outbreak for Dec. 14. Social Sharing Posted: Dec 14, 2020 4:11 PM ET | Last Updated: December 14, 2020 With COVID-19 immunization officially underway in Canada, thinking through who should get inoculated in the next stage. Canada Revenue Agency sends 441,000 education letters to Canadians who may have to repay pandemic CERB benefits. Dozens of Canadian military members are on the ground to help Shamattawa First Nation in northern Manitoba deal with virus outbreak. ...