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‘Fractured’ health care system is failing Canadians, report finds
Wednesday, August 10th, 2011
Aug. 10, 2011
A large number of Canadians told the CMA they believe health care is “in distress.”… “the health care system is fractured to such a degree that it is, in some ways, a system in name only,” says the report. “ From the perspective of the patient as a consumer of health care, it does a poor job of transitioning patients from one level of care to another. It does not provide patient-centred care — the care people need when they need it.” [It] is failing Canadians, especially vulnerable groups such as children, the elderly, aboriginal people and those who live in rural parts of the country.
Tags: Health, Indigenous, mental Health, rights, standard of living
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Mapping a New Course to Defeat Tuberculosis
Monday, August 8th, 2011
Canada’s TB incidence rate was 4.8 cases for every 100,000 people in 2009, a bit better than Australia (6.4 per 100,000) and a bit worse than the U.S. (4.1 per 100,000). …TB in some of Canada’s First Nations communities is far more prevalent. The rate among Aboriginals living on reserves, in fact, is 31 times higher than among non-Aboriginal Canadians, while among the Inuit the rate is 185 times higher… “Tuberculosis is fundamentally a flag for poverty… and that it’s highly prevalent among the reservations and among the Inuit is just the most graphic evidence of the extent of the disparity.”
Tags: Health, Indigenous, poverty, standard of living
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‘Do you have running water? I don’t and I live in Canada’
Thursday, July 28th, 2011
Jul. 28, 2011
For the past decade, Ottawa has consistently opposed recognizing the right to water and sanitation. The Harper government voted to abstain when the General Assembly vote took place, and then argued (incorrectly) that the resolution is not binding… with an enforceable obligation, the government would likely face extensive liability with respect to the terrible drinking water and sanitation conditions in so many first nations communities. There are at least 49 “high risk” aboriginal communities in Canada with little access to clean water and more than 100 facing “boil water” advisories
Tags: Health, Indigenous, rights, standard of living
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Act to mitigate on-reserve youth depression
Friday, July 22nd, 2011
July 21, 2011
Statistics Canada indicates there are five main predictors of depressed mood in Canada, with income being the largest predictor. According to the agency, the difference in prevalence between low and high income Canadians is 11.6 per cent to 3.6 per cent respectively, approximately a three-fold difference… Although poverty explains much of the high prevalence of depression among First Nations youth, it does not explain why some low income youth become depressed and others do not. The risk indicators found in the study explain the difference…
Tags: Health, Indigenous, mental Health, poverty, standard of living, youth
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The national shame of aboriginal incarceration
Wednesday, July 20th, 2011
Jul. 20, 2011
Federal correctional investigator Howard Sapers, in his 2009 report, says that the gap between aboriginal and non-aboriginal offenders continues to grow and that the rate for aboriginal incarceration in 2008 was nine times the national average. This gap will widen and these numbers will increase with the Harper government’s proposed crime bill. The ugly reality is that aboriginals will be especially hard hit by this legislation… Among women offenders, the overrepresentation is even more dramatic – one in three federally sentenced women is aboriginal.
Tags: corrections, crime prevention, Indigenous, participation, poverty, standard of living
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First Nations: Forge hope from the pain
Sunday, July 17th, 2011
Jul 16 2011
In theory at least, Prime Minister Stephen Harper is… committed to holding a “Canada-First Nation Crown Gathering” to discuss a wide variety of issues: governance reforms, accountability, economic development and schooling, among others… Native leaders talk of negotiating a wide-ranging deal with the Canadian government that would affirm treaties, aboriginal title and rights, and chart a path forward… Ultimately, Atleo envisages breaking up the federal Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development department and giving First Nations the option at least of managing their affairs outside the restrictive 1876 Indian Act.
Tags: Indigenous, participation, rights, standard of living
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Deal tries to hush up disgrace of Caledonia
Tuesday, July 12th, 2011
Jul 11, 2011
There was a double standard — two-tiered or race-based policing, with natives allowed to break the law with impunity — at work in that town, in 2006 and until the present day. Anyone who imagines Caledonia is peaceful now is correct. It is. And that’s because non-native residents know not to even attempt to set foot on the old DCE, and so do the OPP. It is de facto Six Nations territory, won through weakness on the government side and intimidation on the other… this story remains Ontario’s greatest modern disgrace.
Tags: crime prevention, Indigenous, rights
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Canada ready to spar with UN over ‘visible minorities’
Wednesday, July 6th, 2011
Jul 5, 2011
Canada faces a new grilling before a United Nations anti-racism watchdog — but will defy the Geneva-based body over the question the government’s use of the term “visible minorities.” A delegation to be led by Citizenship and Immigration Canada will tell the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination that Canada considers the term to be appropriate. The committee signalled when it grilled Canada four years ago that the government was being racist by using the term.
Tags: disabilities, Indigenous, multiculturalism, rights, women
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Out in the open [Aboriginal sexual health education]
Monday, July 4th, 2011
June 30, 2011
First Nations women and youth are at disproportionately higher risks than the mainstream Canadian population to have other adverse sexual and reproductive health outcomes. These communities are more likely to suffer high-risk pregnancies, pre-term deliveries, sexually transmitted infections and instances of sexual violence… The Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada (SOGC)… online initiative, AboriginalSexualHealth.ca (link to: http://aboriginalsexualhealth.ca/), [is] a website meant to educate and empower First Nation, Inuit and Métis women and their health-care providers.
Tags: Health, Indigenous, standard of living, women, youth
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If we don’t stand in the way, we can help native youth
Friday, June 24th, 2011
Jun. 24, 2011
Chronic disparities in funding for health, education and social services for more than 700,000 first nations people are the product of entrenched discriminatory policies. But the discriminatory thrust of such policies can be challenged now, under the Human Rights Act… Disparities in essential services to first nations people are well documented… As of June 18, people can file complaints against first nations governments as well as the federal government if they believe they have been discriminated against in relation to services that affect their daily lives.
Tags: economy, Indigenous, participation, standard of living, youth
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