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Manitoba offers virtual service for youth mental health – Can Health
December 4, 2024 WINNIPEG – The Manitoba government is introducing a new virtual crisis consultation service to support children and youth facing mental health and addiction challenges. The service will connect frontline workers, such as school-based counselors, social workers, and physicians, to clinical experts for immediate advice and support. “This is a hub-and-spoke model that […]
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GOLD: Safe consumption site location not-so-secret any more – Winnipeg Sun
Dec 04, 2024 The Point Douglas Residents Committee was already ringing the alarm about the way the provincial government was trying to manipulate the public consultation process for a proposed Supervised Consumption Site destined for their neighbourhood. But after discovering on Monday evening that a formal application has been filed with Health Canada to locate […]
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Health order sending Manitoba woman to jail for tuberculosis treatment ‘wildly excessive’: lawyer – Atin Ito News
December 3 2024 A Manitoba woman with no criminal charges spent a month in jail after public health officials ordered her detained to treat her tuberculosis, even though she wasn’t infectious at the time. Geraldine Mason was apprehended under Public Health Act, spent month in jail after missing TB medication. Geraldine Mason, 36, was arrested […]
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AMC Condemns Incarceration of First Nations Woman for Tuberculosis Treatment
December 3, 2024 Treaty One Territory, Winnipeg – The Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs (AMC) expresses outrage over the extreme and egregious treatment of Geraldine Mason, a 36-year-old First Nations woman from God’s Lake First Nation, under Manitoba’s Public Health Act. Ms. Mason was incarcerated, strip-searched, and placed in a correctional facility to enforce tuberculosis treatment […]
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Pinaymootang Health Centre helps fill health-care gaps for First Nation, surrounding communities – CBC
Dec 03, 2024 Nearly half of clients served are from outside the First Nation, health director says. A Manitoba First Nation is helping to bridge the gap in health-care services not only for its members, but for multiple surrounding Interlake communities. The Pinaymootang Health Centre helps care for thousands of Manitobans every year, but nearly […]
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Manitoba Government Reaffirms Commitment to Community-Led HIV Prevention, Intervention Projects
December 2, 2024 In observance of World AIDS Day, the Manitoba government is reaffirming its commitment to support person-centred, culturally safe initiatives that improve access to HIV prevention and intervention, Health, Seniors and Long-Term Care Minister Uzoma Asagwara and Housing, Addictions and Homelessness Minister Bernadette Smith announced today. “Our province has one of the highest […]
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Health order sending Manitoba woman to jail for tuberculosis treatment ‘wildly excessive’: lawyer – CBC
Dec 02, 2024 Geraldine Mason was apprehended under Public Health Act, spent month in jail after missing TB medication A woman from northern Manitoba with no criminal charges spent a month in jail after public health officials ordered her detained to treat her tuberculosis, even though she wasn’t infectious at the time. Geraldine Mason, 36, was […]
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Statement from Health, Seniors and Long-Term Care Minister Uzoma Asagwara on World AIDS Day
December 1, 2024 Today marks World AIDS Day, a day to remember the people we have lost to HIV-AIDS and continue to advocate for better care. Manitobans deserve access to quality HIV and AIDS prevention and care, and I’m proud to say that this is a priority for our government. We have invested over $8 […]
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Manitoba Advocate Releases Special Report: Innagakaeyaa Bimadizewin (Towards the Good Life): Unifying Voices for Youth Addiction System Change
NOVEMBER 28, 2024 – TREATY 1 TERRITORY AND NATIONAL HOMELAND OF THE RED RIVER MÉTIS, Winnipeg, Man. Today, Manitoba Advocate for Children and Youth Sherry Gott released the special report Innagakaeyaa Bimadizewin (Towards the Good Life): Unifying Voices for Youth Addiction System Change, an urgent call for action to reform Manitoba’s youth addiction services. The […]
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AMC Calls for Immediate Action on Manitoba’s Alarming Child Poverty Rates
November 28, 2024 Treaty One Territory, Winnipeg – The Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs (AMC) continues to sound the alarm over Manitoba’s escalating child poverty crisis. The recently released report, “35 Years In: Manitoba Needs an Anti-Poverty Strategy That Works,” from Campaign 2000 highlights a devastating child poverty rate of 27 per cent in Manitoba – […]
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