More Anti-Indigenous Health Care Discrimination in the Northwest: Study

New data helps put ‘Indigenous health back into Indigenous hands’

KENORA — The head of an Indigenous-led health care centre in Kenora says new data should help secure additional funding for its work.

More anti-Indigenous health care discrimination in the Northwest: study

KENORA — A new study has found Indigenous people in Thunder Bay and Kenora report higher rates of discrimination in the health care system than those in southern Ontario.

Inquest exposed health-care failures in Ontario jails that staff, advocates say are widespread

The inquest into the death of a Wiikwemkoong First Nation man at the Sudbury Jail has exposed long-standing, Ontario-wide failures in correctional health care, say advocates and correctional officers. For inmates to have a chance at getting out and being productive, "they need to be well," says the John Howard Society of Sudbury's CEO.

Study: Indigenous people in Northwestern Ontario report more health care discrimination