Current Problems: Health (18-24)
Exploring Theme: "Legislative and Institutional Issues"
Updates on this page: 16
December 10, 2024
He was removed from his community for weeks for a psych evaluation. His family says there must be a better way
Hundreds supported return of Pone Shecanapish, who is non-verbal, to Kawawachikamach, Que. CBC Indigenous: Gilles-Francis Pone Shecanapish may not be able to talk about his experience being flown 500 kilometres to a psych ward, but his sister says the experience has left a mark on the 40-year-old who has severe intellectual disabilities and is non-verbal....
November 12, 2024
Further revelations about Non-Insured Health Benefits mental health program illustrate need for systemic change
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...
November 4, 2024
Canada’s Indigenous mental health program is meant to be a lifeline. Instead, it’s so mired in red tape it seems ‘set up to deter people from accessing’ care
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...
November 1, 2024
A murder conviction. Sex with an ex-client. Defending residential schools. Critics are alarmed at background of therapists approved for Indigenous mental health program
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...
October 11, 2024
Transport Canada withholds health study on Fort Chipewyan contamination
Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation Chief Allan Adam is among three Indigenous leaders calling out the government for not telling the community about contamination at the “Big Dock.” File photo by Natasha Bulowski/Canada’s National ObserverListen to article Canada’s National Observer: Indigenous leaders and experts are questioning Transport Canada’s claim that contamination at a dock in Fort...
August 14, 2024
Doctors spread thin in remote Ontario communities, inquest for First Nation woman told
Physicians ‘trying to see a month’s worth of patients in 3 days,’ doctor tells Ruthann Quequish inquest CBC News: The inquest for Ruthann Quequish from Kingfisher Lake First Nation in northwestern Ontario has shed light on health-care challenges in remote areas, and as it wraps up, her community’s chief says it’s clear to him that the...
July 22, 2024
Manitoba First Nation says members without health care due to nursing shortage
Chief Angela Levasseur says her northern Manitoba community is without basic healthcare due to a nursing shortage. Photo: NCN CBC News: Members of a northern First Nation looking to get prescriptions refilled, blood work done or access to other basic health-care services are often being turned away because of a nursing shortage in the community....
July 8, 2024
Nursing shortage crisis in northern remote First Nations is systemic racism: Chief
Manto Sipi Cree Nation is more than 200 kilometres from the nearest hospital. Photo from Manto Sipi Cree Nation Facebook page Listen to article Canada’s National Observer: A chief of a northern Manitoba First Nation is condemning a decade-long nursing shortage in northern and remote communities as “systemic racism.” Michael Yellowback, Chief of Manto Sipi Cree...
July 8, 2024
Cree woman plans to get medical treatment she needs in Nicaragua
APTN News: Sherri Caudron is planning to travel more than 6,000 km to South America from her home in Hay River, Northwest Territories to get the medical attention she needs. The Cree woman, who says she has lived with chronic pain and mobility issues for three years, expects to meet with a specialist in Nicaragua...
May 13, 2024
Coroner calls inquest into death of Raphael Andre because of ‘incomplete’ file
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...
April 26, 2024
First Nations leaders disappointed Yukon’s Health Authority Act is not yet law
‘I think it’s important to get this passed,’ said Chief Pauline Frost, after vote was delayed CBC News: Vuntut Gwitchin Chief Pauline Frost expressed disappointment that she did not get to see the proposed Yukon Health Authority Act become law this week. The legislation, which would create a new, arm’s-length organization to carry out front-line health care in...
April 25, 2024
‘We have room for improvement’: Management testifies at Whitehorse inquest
Coroner’s inquest into shelter deaths wraps up. The inquest is being held at the Best Western in downtown Whitehorse. Photo: Sara Connors/APTN APTN News: Upper management for a non-profit that operates the Whitehorse emergency shelter said it’s often up to frontline staff to use their own judgement when assisting shelter clientele who are intoxicated or...
April 10, 2024
‘My heart’s very heavy’: Inquest into deaths of 4 Indigenous women starts in Whitehorse
An inquest into the deaths of four Indigenous women at a Whitehorse shelter is taking place over the next three weeks. Photo: APTN. APTN News: The first few days of an inquest into the deaths of four Indigenous women at the Whitehorse Emergency Shelter has proven to be highly emotional for the loved ones of...
March 15, 2024
Flip-flop in regulating mental health counsellors will slow getting urgent services to Indigenous people: Treaty 6, 8
A counsellor at work (CTV News Vancouver) NationTalk: Windspeaker.com – The decision by Alberta to regulate counsellor therapy through the College of Alberta Psychologists (CAP) will not meet the urgency of mental health care required by Indigenous populations in the province. Letters sent from Treaty 6 and Treaty 8 nations in February to provincial ministers...
February 27, 2024
Her mom’s lung cancer was caught too late. It’s part of a pattern in Nunavik
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...
February 27, 2024
Nunavut government closing group home at centre of multiple probes
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...
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