Indigenous youth still overrepresented in serious injuries, deaths in Alberta: advocate
According to the child advocate, 72 per cent of child who died in care were First Nation, Inuit or Métis.
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First Nations ‘mobilizing’ to keep Toronto drug dealers out of communities
Communities that have their own land codes can create laws to remove dealers preying on wounded people trying to overcome trauma.
Minister says not enough beds for compulsory care for addictions across the country
Several provinces are discussing introducing or expanding compulsory treatment
First Nation treatment centres delay implementing Alberta’s addictions plan
Province took ‘colonialistic approach’ to developing policy, says Blackfoot doctor.
Yukon court sentences first person for manslaughter in fatal overdose case
Jared Skookum was sentenced to two years less a day
Inquest explores challenges of remote health care after death of First Nations woman
An inquest into the death of a First Nations woman that opened Monday is expected…
Indigenous-led supervised consumption site coming to Winnipeg: NDP
The Manitoba government announced Friday it will open the province’s first supervised consumption site in…
22 Canadians die each day to drug poisoning, says new data
New data from the Advisory Committee on Drug Poisoning in Canada shows the number of…
Sister of Darylyn Supernant says more resources needed for drug addiction to prevent deaths
Supernant becomes 4th person to die under suspicious circumstances in Dawson Creek