MONTREAL The coroner s inquest into the death of Joyce Echaquan is set to begin Thursday at the Trois-Rivières courthouse. The Indigenous mother from the Atikamekw community of Manawan died on September 28 at Joliette Hospital after being subjected to degrading insults by two employees. Shortly before her death, the 37-year-old woman filmed herself from her hospital bed with her cellphone. In the video, Echaquan is seen to be agitated and in pain, while a nurse and an orderly can be heard talking, insulting her and hurling abuse at her. Both employees were fired shortly afterwards. The video was widely circulated on social media and triggered a wave of shock and outrage, with many denouncing the systemic racism against Indigenous people and the impact on the quality of health care they receive.
At committee: Broadcasting-regime overhaul, offshore safety By Kady O Malley. Published on May 10, 2021 6:31am Parliament Hill (Andrew Meade/iPolitics) CANADIAN HERITAGE members are set to resume debate on a Liberal-initiated pitch to get clause-by-clause review of the proposed broadcasting overhaul back on track after the last-minute removal of a blanket exemption for social media sparked widespread outrage which, in turn, led opposition members to instigate a pause in the proceedings.
“On Friday,
Liberal MP Anthony Housefather tried to break the deadlock with a motion that would ask
Justice Minister David Lametti to provide the committee with “a revised Charter statement on the bill … as soon as possible,” as well as “invite both Lametti and
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With Canada’s vaccine supply appearing to have stabilized, at least for now, the latest point of pandemic-related friction between the federal and provincial governments seems to be cross-border traffic specifically, the “non-essential travel” that at least one premier is openly blaming for the current third wave of infections.
As the Star’s Susan Delacourt reports,
Intergovernmental Affairs Minister Dominic LeBlanc “fired off a letter to Ontario this weekend, asking (Premier) Doug Ford and his cabinet to identify which international travellers they want banned from entering the province.”
“LeBlanc’s four-page letter … is a reply to Ford’s escalating bid to pin the blame on Trudeau for the third wave of the pandemic, which included an attack ad launched by the provincial Conservatives last week,” she notes.
We re asking for a massive investment in youth protection and frontline workers
Author of the article: Jason Magder • Montreal Gazette
Publishing date: May 03, 2021 • May 3, 2021 • 3 minute read • Régine Laurent, President of the Laurent Commission, centre, with vice-presidents Andre Lebon, left, and Michel Rivard speaks during a news conference where she presented her final report into Children s Rights and Youth Protection in Montreal, Monday, May 3, 2021. Photo by Graham Hughes /The Canadian Press
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Groups working in youth protection hailed Régine Laurent’s report Monday as a way to finally address decades-long failures of the system.
The report, prepared by the former president of the Fédération Interprofessionnelle de la santé du Québec, called for the creation of a charter of rights for children and a commissioner to ensure those rights are upheld. It also called for a shift toward prevention and for more resources f