Keeping Indigenous elders safe from COVID-19 a critical part of preserving culture It is difficult to generalize the significance. Sometimes it is regarded as something to be preserved, and communities are documenting the elders’ information to make sure their knowledge …
COVID-19 vaccine tracker: tracing every dose of the coronavirus vaccine administered in Canada Adding to the complexity is the fact that both the Moderna and Pfizer/BioNTech vaccines require two doses administered several weeks apart. Both companies say the efficacy of …
Two new COVID-19 cases confirmed in Fort Nelson First Nations, curfew begins tomorrow In a First Nation Facebook statement, the residents are currently isolating, and contact tracing is underway. Starting on Friday, a curfew will be implemented at the community …
Remote First Nations communities among first in B.C. to get Moderna vaccine While some are feeling nervous, many are thrilled to have first access to the defence against COVID-19. “It is a little bit surreal,” said Don Speck, a member …
Eight Vancouver Island Health region First Nations share 1,900 doses of COVID-19 vaccine Health authorities had announced earlier that 10,700 doses of Moderna will be been made available for rural and remote First Nations communities in the province. To date, …
Vaccinations begin in remote First Nations communities on Island The Ehattesaht Nation near Zeballos is one of at least eight remote First Nations communities on Vancouver Island that has received the COVID-19 vaccine and is already putting needles in arms. …
Remote Nuu-chah-nulth nations receive Moderna vaccine Ka:’yu:’k’t’h’/Che:k:tles7et’h’ First Nations, Huu-ay-aht First Nations, Ehattesaht First Nation, Mowachaht/Muchalaht First Nation, Nuuchatlaht First Nation and Ahousaht First Nation were selected as some of the first Indigenous communities to receive the vaccine, said Jeanette …
Inuit medical boarding home adapts through pandemic When people from western Nunavut and the N.W.T. have to travel from their communities for everything from emergency medevacs, eye appointments delivering babies to follow up ultrasounds in Yellowknife, Larga Kitkmeot becomes home. …
COVID-19 shows the cracks in public education – here’s how to repair them The one area where the federal government has been responsible for designing, managing and delivering kindergarten to Grade 12 education programs has been the provision of schooling …
11 active cases of COVID-19 reported in eastern Quebec first nation MONTREAL — The government of the Listuguj First Nation, in eastern Quebec, says there are now 11 active cases of COVID-19 in the community. The Listuguj Mi’gmaq Government reported …