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The Canadian Medical Association’s revised Code of Ethics and Professionalism calls on physicians to respect Indigenous knowledge, worldviews and healing practices as part of a wider commitment to reconciliation, and addressing discrimination and racism in health care. Elders smudge as Residential School and Sixties Scoop survivors are honoured for a Healing Walk through downtown Winnipeg on the National Day for Truth And Reconciliation, Sept. 30, 2021. THE CANADIAN PRESS/John Woods

Canada’s Indigenous health obligations can’t be separated from rights and reconciliation

Commitments to Indigenous health research cannot be clawed back as part of proposed dismantling of equity, diversity and inclusion criteria for federal research funding.
Unhoused people and supporters protest against police as they prepare to clear homeless encampments in Edmonton on Jan. 9, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jason Franson

Encampment sweeps in Edmonton are yet another example of settler colonialism

Encampment sweeps in Edmonton are a brutal attack on both human and treaty rights, as well as a continuation of the violent removal of Indigenous Peoples from their land.
Establishing Indigenous Protected and Conserved Areas, like the Thaidene Nëné National Park Reserve in the Northwest Territories, while respecting original treaties can help Canada meet its international conservation commitments. (Iris Catholique)

An attack of Indigenous rights is an attack on nature conservation

To address the climate and biodiversity crises, we must stop criminalizing Indigenous Peoples for exercising their treaty rights and start upholding them instead.

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