The Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs blasted Brian Pallister's provincial government for what the AMC calls a hollow, delayed and emotionless response to the discovery of an unmarked burial site at a former B.C. residential school.
After a difficult year with schools shuttered, officials in Garden Hill First Nation, a fly-in community 475 kilometres northeast of Winnipeg, have made the difficult decision to hold students back a year.
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“Throughout the second and third waves of this pandemic, we have seen First Nations people make up 40 to 60 per cent of all COVID-19 admissions to intensive care units. Of these First Nations people, currently two-thirds of them live outside of First Nations communities and mostly in urban environments. That is why it is so important to get our communities – both on and off reserve – fully vaccinated as soon as possible,” said First Nations Pandemic Response Coordination Team public health lead Dr. Marcia Anderson. “Getting fully vaccinated will not only provide a greater level of protection to the individual, but to their family members and loved ones too.”