Robbie Daniels is one of several people behind Sobercrew, a group of mainly Indigenous people who’ve found a way out of their addiction through culture and sobriety.
A statement on the declaration from the Ehattesaht Nation cites the “unrelenting” impact of drugs and alcohol on Ehattesaht, along with “the intergenerational effects of Residential Schools and the oppression of the systems that the federal and provincial governments have created.”
The country's health-care system is suffering from an acute shortage of doctors — even as hundreds of qualified Canadian physicians trained abroad are turned away each year because of a tangle of red-tape and bias, experts say.
Matawa First Nations Management is receiving $4.5 million from Nutrition North Canada to help five remote communities tackle food insecurity in northwestern Ontario. Here's a look at the barriers facing these First Nations and how this support can help ease the strain of high food costs.
At the end of March, the Provincial Health Services Authority says it will close its four regional post-COVID clinics as it transitions to one centralized, virtual program.