Northern communities installing checkpoints, initiating local lockdowns This afternoon Pinehouse Administrator Martine Smith announced on a community Facebook page the village was hiring two security night workers. In all, she wrote there would be four people working 8 p.m. to …
Families turned away, as social distancing cuts space in Winnipeg domestic violence shelters. Ikwe Widdjiitiwin Inc., an Indigenous women’s and children’s family and domestic violence shelter which normally has 35 spots, and Willow Place, a domestic violence shelter which normally …
UNAIDS calls for a human rights approach to the COVID-19 outbreak that puts communities at the centre. “Successful responses to global epidemics are always grounded in a respect for human rights and community leadership,” said Winnie Byanyima, UNAIDS Executive Director. …
“We (need to) work together with the local leaders to find out: what help do they need?” said David Morley, president and CEO of UNICEF Canada. “And we need to continue with the public health messages.” The COVID-19 crisis “will …
Concrete details remain scarce. Finance minister Bill Morneau said they’re working on it. “We recognize that there will be – in cases like supporting Indigenous and northern communities – there will be details that we need to continue to work …
Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs is advising communities to ban non-essential travel. “With the rapidly escalating COVID-19, the AMC recognizes the fact that First Nations in Manitoba cannot use or apply the ongoing provincial and federal criteria,” Dumas said Tuesday in …
B.C.’s First Nations Health Authority looking to secure funding to use hotels as isolation quarters. Also asking work camps to stock up on supplies. https://thetyee.ca/News/2020/03/16/Northern-BC-Indigenous-Communities-Prepare-For-COVID-19/ LNG is reducing staffing at work camps to lessen impacts on Indigenous communities and their …