Pinaymootang man hopes court appearance ends with exoneration
Clarence Woodhouse and his Innocence Canada lawyers are scheduled to appear in a Winnipeg courtroom Thursday
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First Nation treatment centres delay implementing Alberta’s addictions plan
Province took ‘colonialistic approach’ to developing policy, says Blackfoot doctor.
CMA apology ‘could have gone further’: Cree doctor
One First Nations physician says the Canadian Medical Association’s apology to First Nations, Inuit, and Metis peoples falls short. Dr. James Makokis says with it’s records, the CMA should have been able to provide the number of people harmed by the medical system. He also says the apology failed to name the racism responsible for the harms done, which he says is white supremacy.
Man who struck residential school marchers in B.C. found guilty
Richard Manuel, now of Nova Scotia, hit four people with his pickup truck in 2022.
Canadian Medical Association apologizes for harms to First Nations, Inuit and Métis Peoples
The 150-year-old Canadian Medical Association apologized for the harms done to First Nations, Inuit and…
6 deaths in 11 days prompt emergency debate on fatal police shootings of First Nations people
There needs to be greater accountability from police services across Canada when it comes to…
As CMA prepares to apologize, a Cree doctor says racism persists in health system
Dr. James Makokis helped push the Canadian Medical Association to apologize for past harms.
ASIRT investigation into 2020 arrest of chief in Alberta still open
It’s been four years since Athabasca Chipewyan Chief Allan Adam was tackled to the ground…
Alberta MLAs call for province to start collecting race-based data
Two Indigenous politicians in Alberta say the province needs to reconsider the collection of race-based…