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"Taken together, these ... reports clearly demonstrate the need for immediate, principled and comprehensive efforts to eliminate all forms of prejudice and discrimination against Indigenous Peoples in the B.C. health-care system," she writes in the new document. The report comes as Indigenous people across B.C. are speaking out, including the Nuxalk Nation in Bella Coola where hundreds of COVID-19 vaccine doses were abruptly withdrawn and a woman in Kitimat whose baby was stillborn after she sa...

The author of a damning report that found widespread racism in British Columbias health system has released the results of surveys and data collection, revealing a massive gulf between the experiences of Indigenous and non-Indigenous patients. Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond released a supplemental data report Thursday that shows Indigenous people in B.C. are much more likely to feel unsafe in health-care settings, to feel they are never included in care decisions and to feel they receive poorer servi...

Article content Indigenous people have higher rates of chronic disease, a lower life expectancy and a higher rate of opioid deaths, yet a poor access to primary health care means many turn to hospital emergency departments for help. Yet even at those ERs, Indigenous people are more likely to be turned away without the medical care they need. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser, or Report details poor health outcomes for Indigenous people due to racism B...

On Jan. 19, about 75 elders, aged 65 and older, who live on the reserve received a first dose of the vaccine from the Nuxalk health team. But the next day, the team started to face serious technical difficulties. A VCH nurse sent an email to the Provincial Health Services Authority stating that the team was struggling with "very inconsistent Wi-Fi" and that she was tethering internet service from her cellphone, which posed security issues. The nurse also said the First Nations Health ...

Whistler’s COVID-19 numbers continue to rise, with the resort seeing 288 positive cases between Jan. 1 and 26, according to an informational bulletin issued by Vancouver Coastal Health (VCH) . . .

BRAMPTON parish councillors have expressed more concerns about speeding Amazon delivery drivers. They claimed the drivers, based at the Longtown depot, on the Woodlands Industrial Estate, are now avoiding the centre of town, but they also said it was “obvious” that many were still speeding on other roads in the area.  There were also worries over whether unbranded vehicles were still going through Brampton. The depot opened in June last year when it was reported that a network of 1...

Date Time New funding and strategic plan boosts Haiti’s Hydro-Meteorological Service WMO is supporting the first ever national strategic plan to strengthen Haiti’s Hydro-Meteorological Service (UHM), as well as a new international initiative to build resilience to extreme weather and climate change impacts in the western hemisphere’s most impoverished nation. The Climate Risk and Early Warning Services Initiative Haiti project was launched on 27 January to improve forecasts and early warn...

NMSU’s first female Ph.D. was in mathematics, research spanned decades Minerva Baumann, New Mexico State University © Courtesy photo / New Mexico State University Carol Walker, NMSUs first female Ph.D. received her doctorate in mathematics in 1963. LAS CRUCES - Carol Walker’s father may not have dreamed what the future had in store for her, but when little Carol was in elementary school, her dad introduced her to mathematics. “My father used to teach me the sine squared...

Legal action against the municipality of Oka  January 15, 2021 KANESATAKE MOHAWK TERRITORY- Kanesatake is officially taking Oka and the Quebec government to court. The two communities faced a major dispute over the Pines before the end of December, but the conflict certainly didn’t go away with the new year. The Mohawk Council of Kanesatake (MCK) announced on Monday that it has filed for legal actions, demanding to “quash and declare null Oka’s bylaw” as their press release reads. The ...

PRISON had failed to curb James Rogers and now he faced the inevitable - a one way ticket overseas. Just three days had passed from his release before he once more embarked on crime, a smash and grab raid on a Southampton shop where he snatched three watches from a window display. Impudently, however, he suggested a novel proposition to the judge. "Why dont we toss on a coin on it," he urged. "Seven years if I guess right and transportation for life if I get it wrong." But Recorder Bi...