How those working within and outside of Sask. s health-care system are fighting systemic racism Practitioners say racism and discrimination persist within Saskatchewan health care, shaping the care patients receive and the personal health of those who provide it.
Author of the article: Zak Vescera
Publishing date: Jun 03, 2021 • 2 hours ago • 10 minute read • Most Canadians think of their health care system as being free and equal. But Saskatchewan practitioners say racism and discrimination persist within, shaping the care patients receive and the personal health of the people who provide it. Photo by Saskatoon StarPhoenix /Saskatoon StarPhoenix
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Dr. Veronica McKinney was working at a clinic in west Saskatoon when a man in his 40s entered asking for pain medication. He seemed brusque, uninterested in talking, and McKinney sensed something was wrong. She asked to examine the man to find the source of his pain. As she began, he started
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The Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc community announced the discovery of the remains near the Kamloops Indian Residential School in Canada last week.
Thousands of children across the country, most of whom were Indigenous, were separated from their families and forced to attend the residential schools that were operated by the Catholic Church.
The Kamloops Indian Residential School was one of the largest in Canada and operated by the Catholic Church between 1890 and 1969 before it was closed in the late 1970s. A 2015 report from the Canadian government detailed physical, sexual and emotional abuse some of the children suffered, and in 2017, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau personally asked the Pope to consider an official apology.
In a news conference on Parliament Hill, Indigenous Services Minister Marc Miller is joined virtually by Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister Carolyn [.]
iPolitics By Michael Coren. Published on Jun 3, 2021 11:54am Just hours after the Kamloops obscenity was made public, the church issued new and stricter laws regarding sexual abuse, and the ordination of women. Photo by (Brett Sayles/ Pexels)
The horror of the remains of 215 children being found at the Kamloops Indian Residential School has opened, or reopened, a wound in Canadian society. It’s reminded us of the birth defect in this country’s history, the cultural genocide of Indigenous people. So many are responsible. The state, the settler mentality, the colonial culture, the churches, the police. Most churches were involved, and most have made profound and heartfelt apologies, and taken ownership of this founding sin. They’ve got a ways to go, but they have heard and seen the anguish and the injustice.
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Federal officials had to deal with a lack of personal protective equipment (PPE) and a host of other issues, but they moved quickly to ensure the health and safety of the country’s Indigenous population, the Auditor-General’s report on health resources in Indigenous communities found when it was released last week.
The report found that PPE stockpile levels were lower than 2003 standards had set out after that year’s SARS outbreak, but that when faced with shortages of equipment, federal officials worked diligently with their provincial counterparts.
Despite “weaknesses in Indigenous Services Canada’s management of its personal protective equipment (PPE) stockpile, the department adapted quickly to respond to the COVID?19 pandemic. The department expanded access to its PPE stockpile to health care workers in Indigenous communities and organizations when provinces and territories were unable to provide PPE,” the report found, addin