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Two inquests with differing outcomes gives us hope, but a tidal change in the way health care professionals and hospital staff treat Indigenous people is still needed, write four members of the Brian Sinclair Working Group.
In today's Morning Brief, we look at the COVID-19 situation in Russia, where officials are warning the country will pass 30,000 cases per day, as the daily death toll approaches 1,000.
2Centre for Indigenous Studies, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada 3Department of Family and Community Medicine, College of Medicine, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States 4American Indian Studies, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States Throughout the Americas, most Indigenous people move through urban areas and make their homes in cities. Yet, the specific issues and concerns facing Indigenous people in cities, and the positive protective factors their vibrant urban communities generate are often overlooked and poorly understood. This has been particularly so und...
Two Canadian nurses are suspended for mocking an indigenous woman by comparing her to a patient who died in agony a year earlier at the SAME hospital while staff mocked her for being 'stupid' and 'only good for sex' Two nurses in Joliette, Quebec, have been suspended without pay for making derogatory comments about an unnamed patient The patient was subjected to 'intimidation, mockery and harassment' , according to an indigenous leader The names of the nurses have not yet been made public The unnamed woman was compared to Joyce Echaquan, 37, who a year earlier had filmed staff taunting h...