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Montreal’s Chez Doris invests in housing to support homeless women – Nunatsiaq News
Oct 5, 2022 Montreal shelter raises $15M to address homelessness among vulnerable women, with plans for more Growth can be a good thing — but for the people who run Chez Doris, expanding into temporary and transitional housing for vulnerable and homeless women wasn’t quite the type of growth they had in mind. Chez Doris […]
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TODAY: There’s a Montreal vigil & march for Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women & 2Spirit people – Cult MTL
October 4, 2022 “Let’s join together to honour the lives of those who are no longer with us, to learn from activists and elders, and to be inspired to action by the songs and performances of Indigenous artists.” A vigil is taking place at Cabot Square in Montreal today to mark the National Day of […]
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Kateri Champagne Jourdain is Quebec’s first Indigenous MNA – Cult MTL
October 4, 2022 “We made history in Quebec. I am very proud. I carry the Innu culture within me, and I am bringing it with me to Quebec City.” Among the 90 seats won by the CAQ in the Quebec election yesterday was the Quebec North Shore riding of Duplessis, whose representative Kateri Champagne Jourdain […]
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Lamothe rolls to election victory in Ungava; Coalition Avenir Quebec wins another majority – Nunatsiaq News
Oct 4, 2022 CAQ incumbent celebrates re-election with a beer Even as his lead in the polls continued to grow Monday night, Ungava riding’s incumbent Coalition Avenir Québec MNA Denis Lamothe hesitated at first to declare victory. “For me, it’s official when it’s official,” Lamothe said in a phone interview at around 11 p.m. “It’s […]
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Quebec’s health ministry says it will look into improving its Indigenous awareness training – CBC
Sep 29, 2022 Mandatory training was deployed in the wake of Joyce Echaquan’s death in 2020 Quebec government representatives say discussions will occur about improving the province’s mandatory Indigenous awareness training that was deployed to health-care workers following the death of Joyce Echaquan. The 37-year-old Atikamekw mother of seven died in a Joliette, Que., hospital […]
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Broken promises, denial of systemic racism strain CAQ-Indigenous relations going into Oct. 3 vote – CBC
Sep 29, 2022 CAQ’s Legault takes ‘still very much a colonial approach’: AFN regional chief Ghislain Picard When Ghislain Picard received a call from the newly elected premier, François Legault, two days after Legault’s Coalition Avenir Québec won the 2018 provincial election, his first reaction was that relations between Indigenous people and the new government […]
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New Indigenous space at the Department of Family Medicine inaugurated – McGill Reporter
Dedicated to activities around Indigenous Health and community outreach within the health sector, new space is the first of its kind at McGill September 27, 2022 Representatives of local Indigenous organizations were among those in attendance on the evening of September 13, for the official opening of the Indigenous space at McGill’s Department of Family […]
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Quebec’s Indigenous sensitivity training falls short, say health-care workers – CBC
Sep 26, 2022 Training sparked by Joyce Echaquan’s death called ‘superficial’ and ‘cringe-worthy’ As the second anniversary of Joyce Echaquan’s death approaches this week, Indigenous health professionals say the measures taken by the Quebec government to address racism and discrimination in medical facilities have been inadequate. Echaquan, a 37-year-old Atikamekw mother of seven, died in […]
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An Indigenous view on the death of Queen Elizabeth II – Ricochet
In our time of grief, our ancestral teachings tell us to mourn for our loved one for 10 days. The protocol according to Kaianera’kó:wa — The Great Law of Peace — is that other clans will take care of the grieving family’s needs for those 10 days. These clans will console, feed, listen, and tell […]
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Quebec First Nations promise to keep pushing to be heard as second term for Legault government almost guaranteed – Yahoo News
September 23, 2022 Assembly of First Nations Quebec-Labrador (AFNQL) Chief Ghislain Picard is no more at ease now that he has heard incumbent Member of the National Assembly (MNA) of Quebec Ian Lafrenière’s take on Indigenous issues. Lafrenière, who serves as Indigenous Affairs minister in the incumbent Coalition Avenir Québec (CAQ) government, joined MNAs Gregory […]
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