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COVID-19 Bulletin #268
November 27, 2020 Public health officials advise 14 additional deaths due to COVID-19 have been reported today including: • a male in his 50s from the Winnipeg health region; • a male in his 50s from the Interlake–Eastern health region; • a male in his 70s from the Interlake–Eastern health region; • a male in […]
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SCO: First Nations Must Be Priority for COVID-19 Vaccine
November 26, 2020 ANISHINAABE AND DAKOTA TERRITORY, MB — The Southern Chiefs’ Organization (SCO) is wanting answers from the federal government when it comes to prioritization for approved COVID-19 vaccinations. “The data is glaringly obvious and devastating,” stated SCO Grand Chief Jerry Daniels. “The COVID-19 pandemic is disproportionately impacting our Anishinaabe and Dakota communities. Canada […]
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COVID-19 Bulletin #267
November 26, 2020 Public health officials advise 10 additional deaths due to COVID-19 have been reported today including: • a male in his 50s from the Southern Health–Santé Sud health region and linked to the outbreak at the Bethesda Regional Health Centre; • a male in his 70s from the Winnipeg health region: • a […]
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MKO: Funding opportunities from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research
Nov 26, 2020 Launched – Team Grants in Diabetes Prevention and Treatment in Indigenous Communities: Resilience and Wellness The CIHR Institute of Nutrition, Metabolism and Diabetes (INMD), Institute of Indigenous Peoples’ Health (IIPH), Institute of Circulatory and Respiratory Health (ICRH), Institute of Human Development, Child and Youth Health (IHDCYH), and Institute of Neurosciences, Mental Health […]
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MB Government: Province Announces Expansion of Residential Addictions Treatment Program for Women
November 25, 2020 Program Adds New Spaces at Reopened Addictions Foundation of Manitoba Campus in Winnipeg: Friesen As part of the province’s ongoing commitment to enhance mental health and addiction services and programs, new women’s residential treatment spaces will be added to the Addictions Foundation of Manitoba’s (AFM) Portage Avenue campus in Winnipeg when it […]
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Community Forum on December 1: Exploring News Perspectives in Substance Use and Addiction
To view the event poster in a PDF format, please click here. You are invited to register and join in the virtual community forum on Tuesday, December 1, 2020, from 7 to 8 pm where Dr. Ginette Poulin will lead and discuss “Substance Use & Addiction: Exploring New Perspectives.” Dr. Poulin will also provide the […]
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More than 200 new COVID-19 cases identified among Manitoba’s First Nations people – CTV News
November 17, 2020 WINNIPEG — The Manitoba First Nations COVID-19 Pandemic Response Coordination Team (PRCT) is reporting 213 new COVID-19 cases among the province’s First Nations people. The response team announced its latest numbers on Nov. 16, noting they include totals from Nov. 13 to 15. Of these 213 cases, 68 are on reserve and […]
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Entire Indigenous care home infected with COVID-19 – Winnipeg Free Press
WINNIPEG – Every resident of a long-term care home on a northern Manitoba reserve where the number of infections almost doubled in a day has tested positive for COVID-19, says the Indigenous community’s leader. All 28 seniors at the Rod McGillivary Memorial Care Home on the Opaskwayak Cree Nation have been infected and 17 of […]
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Critical situation’: Opaskwayak Chief calling for help with care home outbreak – CTV News
WINNIPEG — A northern Manitoba First Nation is considering asking the federal government to send in the military to contain an outbreak, which has infected every resident at a personal care home. “On Friday it really got out of control,” Opaskwayak Cree Nation Chief Christian Sinclair told CTV news Sunday, describing the situation as an […]
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Strict measures continues as lockdown extended at Manitoba First Nation – Globalnews.ca
November 16, 2020 Peguis First Nation has extended its community lockdown until Nov. 24. The community north of Winnipeg had previously been under a pandemic lockdown that ended Monday, and alternated between three-day periods of very strict measures, including an enforced 24-hour curfew where residents are required to stay home. Those measures will continue for […]
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