Exploring Theme: "Legislative and Institutional Issues"

Trigger warning: This press contains sensitive subject matter, including suicide and self-harm, that could be triggering for some readers. Resources are available below. NationTalk: Toronto, Ont. – The federal Non-Insured Health Benefits (NIHB) mental health program is harming First Nations people, according to another damning media report published last week by the Toronto Star and...

The federal government says it is working to make care more accessible and aims to reimburse patients on time, while also offering a crisis helpline. By Wendy-Ann Clarke, Declan Keogh / Investigative Journalism Bureau and Robert CribbStaff Reporter Toronto Star, TVO, Investigative Journalism Bureau – Soon after psychologist Leigh Sheldon opened a mental health clinic in Edmonton...

A program meant to fund care for Indigenous patients is instead failing them by endorsing therapists with spotted histories, critics charge. By Wendy-Ann Clarke, Declan Keogh and Owen Thompson / Investigative Journalism Bureau and Robert Cribb, Staff Reporter Toronto Star: Dr. Oren Amitay has posted online an article defending Indian Residential Schools. The Toronto psychologist has publicly lauded...

APTN News: An inquest into the death of Raphael Andre started in Montreal Monday and hopes to shed light on how the Innu man died. Andre, also called “Napa,” an endearing Nutshimit-Innu used to describe someone with inextricable ties to the land, died in January 2021 outdoors on a cold night in Montreal after being...

New study points to pattern of high mortality among Inuit patients CBC Indigenous: Nearly 17 years after her mother’s death, Natasha Ita MacDonald, from Kuujjuarapik in northern Quebec, still wonders if she could have survived. Louisa Tuckatuck MacDonald, died at 57, just seven months after doctors discovered a grapefruit-sized mass in her lungs and diagnosed her...

Deaths of 12- and 19-year-old trigger several investigations at facility in Chesterfield Inlet. The Naja Isabelle Home is under investigation after two residents died. Photo: Chesterfield Inlet Development Corp.  APTN News: The Nunavut government says it won’t renew its contract with the company operating a group home in Chesterfield Inlet, Nunavut. Instead residents are being...