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Provinces are urged to consider urban Indigenous residents as priorities for vaccine roll out  February 19, 2021  Local Journalism Initiative Reporter On February 11, 2021 Jocelyn Formsma, Executive Director of the National Association of Friendship Centres (NAFC), appeared on the First Nations Health Managers Association (FNHMA) Weekly Virtual Town Hall podcast to discuss vaccinations for urban Indigenous people and the advocacy that the NAFC is pursuing to make it happen. “I should prefac...

Systemic racism in Canada’s health care and how it affects vaccine rollout Twinkle Ghosh and Mike Le Couteur © Handout / Manitoba Keewatinowi Okimakanak (MKO) Inc. A community member in Norway House Cree Nation receives one of the first 240 doses of the Moderna vaccine, which arrived on January 7, 2021. As Canada tries to address racism in healthcare, the countrys vaccine rollout needs to focus more on Indigenous communities, Indigenous Services Minister Marc Miller said We...