• Who We Are
    • Project Description
    • Research Team
    • Partners
    • Staff
    • Get Involved
    • Contact
  • International Gathering
    • Keynote Speakers
    • Panel Speakers
    • Program
    • Virtual Archive – Rewatch the Gathering
    • Sponsors
  • Our Data Indigenous
  • Kana Wain Ndida
  • Resources
    • Mapping the Pandemic
    • E-Newsletter
    • Helpful Links
      • Health & Safety
      • Mapping Cases in Indigenous Communities
    • Infographics
    • Community Voices
      • Community Stories
      • Share Your Story
    • Webinars
      • Proposal Development Workshop
    • Kahkakiw
      • Colouring Pages
Covid-19 Indigenous
  • Who We Are
    • Project Description
    • Research Team
    • Partners
    • Staff
    • Get Involved
    • Contact
  • International Gathering
    • Keynote Speakers
    • Panel Speakers
    • Program
    • Virtual Archive – Rewatch the Gathering
    • Sponsors
  • Our Data Indigenous
  • Kana Wain Ndida
  • Resources
    • Mapping the Pandemic
    • E-Newsletter
    • Helpful Links
      • Health & Safety
      • Mapping Cases in Indigenous Communities
    • Infographics
    • Community Voices
      • Community Stories
      • Share Your Story
    • Webinars
      • Proposal Development Workshop
    • Kahkakiw
      • Colouring Pages

Media

  • Home
  • Media
  • Covid-19 Daily News Digest – September 22, 2020

Covid-19 Daily News Digest – September 22, 2020

  • Posted by Kelly.Janz
  • Categories Media
  • Date September 22, 2020

Indigenous Food Circle a standing force during COVID-19 (2 photos)

“Communities were really resilient and learning about themselves and understanding that if you are in a lock down what do you do about food when you’re dependent on the supply change,” says Jessica Mclaughlin, member of the Long Lake 58 First Nation and coordinator of the Indigenous Food Circle.

While supplying Good Food Boxes to communities in need, IFC created and built stronger relationships with the people of these communities.

https://www.tbnewswatch.com/wisdom/indigenous-food-circle-a-standing-force-during-covid-19-2-photos-2728557

Government of Canada encouraging Indigenous participation in its response to COVID-19

As the country gradually restarts the economy, essential services organizations that experience short-term gaps in their personal protective equipment and supplies can apply for the ESCR to avoid disruptions in services to citizens.

While Indigenous businesses have been part of the response from the outset of the pandemic, PSPC is encouraging a greater presence of Indigenous businesses and individuals in its supplier base.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/government-canada-encouraging-indigenous-participation-180000212.html

B.C. privacy commissioner will hear First Nations complaints about COVID

The commissioner’s letter says the investigation was launched because “extensive communications” between First Nations and the Health Ministry before the complaint was lodged suggest an informal resolution is “unlikely to succeed.”

“The idea that we need to have an outbreak, as we have just had in our community, before B.C. will share information, is reckless and colonial, and it goes against B.C.’s own laws and promises of reconciliation,” Slett said in a news release the next day.

https://vancouverisland.ctvnews.ca/b-c-privacy-commissioner-will-hear-first-nations-complaints-about-covid-1.5113678

WABANO CENTRE PROVIDING POP-UP COVID-19 TESTING FOR INDIGENOUS PEOPLE

Lyons said there were 50 people booked for tests Monday and another 50 on Tuesday.

“We also have a waiting list, and it’s growing,” she said. “So we know Indigenous people want to come and get tested.”

With high demand at testing centres across the city—the Moodie Drive COVID-19 care clinic reached capacity for the day on Monday morning—the pop-up site provides some relief.

https://www.iheartradio.ca/580-cfra/news/wabano-centre-providing-pop-up-covid-19-testing-for-indigenous-people-1.13553264

Secwépemc Nation calls for better notification processes of COVID-19

“The lack of communication to our band about confirmed COVID-19 cases is unacceptable,” Wilson said. “Our communities raised concerns about notification at the start of COVID-19, which have not yet been resolved, meaning our members do not have the opportunity to proactively increase their personal, family and community precautions against COVID-19.”

https://www.kamloopsthisweek.com/news/secw%C3%A9pemc-nation-calls-for-better-notification-processes-of-covid-19-1.24207050

Outdoor learning COVID-19 renaissance

Ingrid Anderson is with the communications branch of the Ontario Ministry of Education and agrees that outdoor learning can enhance the delivery of existing curriculum, and educators have been given the leeway to make those decisions to move their lessons outside. She says that every year all Ontario school boards get outdoor education funding that totalled $17.7 million in 2020/2021.

“During these exceptional times when physical distancing is important, we are encouraging boards to be creative with the use of outdoor spaces that are available to them within reasonable walking distance,” she says.

Outdoor learning COVID-19 renaissance

How decolonizing public health has helped Indigenous communities control COVID-19

“Indigenous self-determination, leadership and knowledge have been successful in protecting Indigenous communities in Canada during the COVID-19 pandemic.”

“Indigenous communities don’t needs to be taken care of,” said Crawford.

“They need space for leadership, they need resources and they need some of the social inequities taken care of,

but they have the skills and the leadership to protect their people.”

How decolonizing public health has helped Indigenous communities control COVID-19

Ottawa’s east end is getting a COVID-19 testing clinic

“This is something that we’ve been working really hard at for a long time,” Coun. Matthew Luloff, who represents Orléans, said Monday afternoon. “We need to ensure that my east end residents aren’t travelling 10 to 20 kilometres to get a test.”

https://ottawa.ctvnews.ca/ottawa-s-east-end-is-getting-a-covid-19-testing-clinic-1.5113906

How Indigenous communities stayed ahead of the pandemic

Although COVID-19 cases are on the rise in Canada, Indigenous communities have managed to keep infections low, despite initial fears about their vulnerability. Heather Yourex-West explains how they crushed the curve.

https://globalnews.ca/video/7349903/how-indigenous-communities-stayed-ahead-of-the-pandemic

COVID 19: Secwépemc Nation calls for better notification processes

“The lack of communication to our band about confirmed COVID-19 cases is unacceptable,” said Wilson. “Our communities raised concerns about notification at the start of COVID-19 which have not yet been resolved, meaning our members do not have the opportunity to proactively increase their personal, family and community precautions against COVID-19.”

COVID 19: Secwépemc Nation calls for better notification processes

Grand Chief Stewart Phillip supports fall election in B.C.

“I believe that calling this election is not only timely, but it is also prudent given the intensifying COVID-19 pandemic. I believe that now more than ever we need a strong government that carries a very focussed mandate in regard to many challenges facing B.C.,” Phillip said Monday.

“Now is not the time for a shaky coalition government that could fall at any moment. We need a majority government, a strong majority government with a strong mandate.”

https://www.castanet.net/news/BC/311207/Grand-Chief-Stewart-Phillip-supports-fall-election-in-B-C

  • Share:
Kelly.Janz

Previous post

Covid-19 Daily News Digest - September 21, 2020
September 22, 2020

Next post

Swan Lake - Community Update with Elder Dave Scott
September 22, 2020

You may also like

COVID-19 Daily News Digest – February 2, 2021
2 February, 2021

Pauingassi First Nation goes into lockdown after a quarter of members test positive for COVID-19 “It’s safer for them to leave because we have very little resources at our nursing station, and one of them might take a turn for …

COVID-19 Daily News Digest – January 20, 2020
21 January, 2021

Grim’ COVID-19 data highlights inequities on Saskatchewan reserves New data from Indigenous Services Canada (ISC) confirms that fear. As of Monday, there were 13,636 cases confirmed on First Nations reserves across Canada, mostly in the prairies. Reserves in Saskatchewan have …

COVID-19 Daily News Digest – January 19, 2020
19 January, 2021

Covid 19 info in Cree from Thompson general hospital., Learn about COVID-19 in Cree, as Bighetty and Bighetty reports on the virus and current events, from Thompson, MB.  Indigenous Reporters Program helping shape new group of storytellers in Northern Ontario …

Connect

Here are some upcoming virtual events that you can attend online or by phone.

July 7: Climate and Colour

July 2: Anishinaabemowin Wadiswan (Anishinaabe Language Nest)

June 26: 2Spirit Stories: Building Inclusive Intersectional Movements

June 25: A Conversation on Hydro & Indigenous Territories

June 25: Righting Relations Film Screening: Invasion

June 25: Anti-Racism Training Part 2 

June 24: sākihiwē + Wahkohtowin Families workshop: Hand Drum Songs

June 24: Traditional Indigenous approaches to mental health and well-being of health care providers supporting First Nations during the COVID-19 pandemic

June 22: Scaling up - Community Economic Development for a Just Recovery

June 22-29: 7 Days of No Peace

May 30: The Future We Want: Conversation with Young Indigenous Leaders

May 29: Indigenous Laws Conversation in Response to Pandemic

May 28: A Conversation on Indigenous Food Sovereignty

May 28: Indigenous Strategies for a Green Future with Winona LaDuke

May 28: Indigenous Land and Water Protectors Webinar

May 27: Commuting Post-Pandemic: How to Nudge for Sustainable Commutes

May 26: NoWar2020 Conference & Peace Fest

May 21: Protecting Sacred Water: KC Adams and Aimée Craft

May 20: The intersection of mental health and culture during and post COVID-19

May 19: 2020 Rise Webinar Series

May 15: Indigenous Mens/Mxns Gathering

May 14: A Conversation on Land Based Education

May 13: Talanoa: Celebrating Queer Indigenous Resistance

May 12: MEJC Regular Tuesday Meeting

May 11: Speaking up: Conversations About a Better Future - W. Niigan Sinclair

May 7: How to Make A Smudgebowl

May 6: Bush Tea, Podcasting and Indigenous Storytelling

April 29: Lockdown from a First Nations Perspective

April 24: Virtual Ethics Cafe: Equality in a Time of Crisis

April 24: Climate Change and Coronavirus Panel

April 23: Online Community Workshop Alternative Prov. Budget

April 20: Reclaiming Indigenous Paths to Health /Times of Planetary Crisis

April 18: Climate Action During Covid-19

April 14: Indigenous Women on Covid-19 & Fossil Fuel Resistance

April 14: Reconciliation Book Club 4 - Unsettling Canada

April 13 - 17: Isol-action: Spread Justice Not Covid

April 9: Indigenous disaster and emergency management: do past disasters

April 7 - 17: Accessing Deep Indigenous Knowing Webinar

April 6: Building Indigenous Communities of Care during COVID-19

April 2: Online Teach-In: Indigenous Self-Determination and Covid-19

Mar 21: A Covid-19 Fireside Chat with Indigenous Health Professionals
Saved and Accessible here

Mar 18: Webinar on Covid-19 and Indigenous Communities
Saved and Accessible here

Recent Posts

  • Caretaking Mental Health and Wellbeing
  • Post-COVID Horizons: Income-Transfers, Indigenous Poverty and Meaningful Occupations
  • Ka-apachihtaaniwan Creating Togetherness when we are apart
  • Okihtcitawak Patrol Group
  • Virtual Engagement: Relationship building, safe, authentic and culturally appropriate practices

Tags

Advocacy (7) Awareness (2) Ceremony (1) Colonialism (2) Community (11) DigitalHealth (2) Education (3) Environment (3) Food Security (1) Gender (2) Governance (8) HealthSovereignty (5) Health Sovereignty (1) History (4) Housing (2) InternationalPerspective (4) International Perspective (1) Keynote (1) Land (2) MentalHealth (2) Navajo Nation (1) Nunavut (1) Panel (2) PanelCommunity (1) Policy (7) Rankin Inlet (1) Resilience (1) Storytelling (2) TraditionalKnowledge (2) United States (1) Women (1) Youth (2)

Recent Comments

    Education WordPress Theme by ThimPress. Powered by WordPress. ©2020 Wa Ni Ski Tan