It's been almost six years since Brian Sinclair wheeled himself into the emergency room at
Winnipeg's Health Sciences Centre seeking treatment for a blocked catheter. Thirty-four …

In July 2014, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the rights of Indigenous peoples
concluded that Canadian Aboriginal peoples face human rights problems of crisis …

ROSS INGRAM MEMORIAL ESSAY COMPETITION country town after completing my
training, I needed to have my appendix removed. On the morning of the operation, I had a …

Background The Canadian Critical Care Society (CCCS) recognizes a shared history and a
shared present between First Nations, Métis, and Inuit/Inuk Peoples and non-Indigenous …

Pascale Breault MD CCMF Jessie Nault MD Michèle Audette Cert Art PhD (Hons) Sandro
Échaquan MScN Jolianne Ottawa BSc For more than 30 000 years, Indigenous peoples and …

A recent Ontario court ruling1 has affirmed the right of an Aboriginal girl and her family to
forgo chemotherapy in favour of traditional Aboriginal medicine. The decision has …

Cultural safety training for working with Indigenous people is becoming a common part of
physician education. The Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada has said all …

Last year in Manitoba, the family of Brian Sinclair withdrew from the inquest into his death.
Citing systemic racism within the health care system, the Sinclair family lost confidence that …

LATE LAST MONTH, the federal government held two days of meetings on developing
Indigenous health care legislation. These virtual meetings included some, but not all …

Educational organizations that train medical professionals are intricately linked to the
responsibility of creating culturally safe healthcare providers. However, prevailing inequities …