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Northern Ontario doctors face ‘hidden crisis’ of emotional distress amid staffing shortages
Published in The Globe and Mail | September 15, 2023
In Northern Ontario, the burden of the doctors’ shortage is felt much more acutely than in other parts of the province. Rural doctors are responsible for both primary care in their family practices and emergency care in the hospitals.
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When every minute counts
Published in The Globe and Mail | September 13, 2023
On any given day at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, trauma nurse Thao Sindall cares for some of Ontario’s sickest and most injured patients. The Globe and Mail followed her for a 12-hour shift
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Children with complex medical conditions are aging out of the system designed to support them
Published in The Globe and Mail | September 8, 2023
Health care systems for adults with complex medical conditions, particularly for those that arise at birth, are not as co-ordinated as those for pediatric patients.
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Alberta conservation program looks to change how ranchers deal with grizzly bear conflicts
Published in The Globe and Mail | August 18, 2023
As the number of grizzly bears increases, they are being found farther east from the mountains, encroaching onto ranchland, causing potential conflict with humans and livestock.
Doctor shortage leaves Northern Ontario emergency rooms on the brink of shutting down
Published in The Globe and Mail | August 9, 2023
Emergency rooms across Northern Ontario’s rural hospitals are in “dire” need for more physicians and funding as doctors struggle to keep emergency rooms open through the summer trauma season.
Photo by Sean Kilpatrick, The Canadian Press
Ontario proposing ‘heat stress’ regulations to protect workers from health risks of rising temperatures
Published in The Globe and Mail | August 8, 2023
The Ontario government is proposing to add regulations to the province’s Occupational Health and Safety Act to limit “heat stress” and heat-related illnesses as climate change pushes global temperatures higher.
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Medical research series calls on Canada to do independent inquiry into COVID-19 response
Published in The Globe and Mail | July 24, 2023
A new medical research series calls on Canada to conduct an independent inquiry into the country’s COVID-19 response, citing Canada’s failures in the equity of its domestic and global health deliverance.
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Almost 900 wildfires burning across Canada as provinces and territories set record temperatures
Published in The Globe and Mail | July 17, 2023
Nearly 900 wildfires continued to burn across Canada on Monday, as military assistance arrived in British Columbia and plumes of smoke triggered air quality warnings in more than a dozen U.S. states.
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Indigenous communities face harsher effects from wildfire smoke
Published in The Globe and Mail | July 15, 2023
For Indigenous communities, it is the smoke, not flames, that accounts for the majority of wildfire-related evacuations.
Photo by Ryan Peruniak, The Narwhal
Bears aren’t as deadly as you’ve been taught.
Published in The Narwhal | July 13, 2023
In Waterton Lakes National Park in Alberta’s Rocky Mountains, Parks Canada is hiring Indigenous employees to change the way people think about bears.
Patient’s death in hospital with no doctor available calls attention to Nova Scotia’s staffing crisis
Published in The Globe and Mail | June 26, 2023
A small town in Nova Scotia is asking the province to take action after a patient died in the local hospital when no doctor was on duty.
Illustration by Michelle Theodore, The Walrus
Being Black in a Small Town
Published in The Walrus | April 21, 2023
Schitt’s Creek and Gilmore Girls would have us believe there’s room for only one Black person in every small town. When will pop culture catch up to reality?
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Reclaiming Inuit ingredients sets this body-care company apart – while connecting it to community
Published in The Globe and Mail | March 20, 2023
At the heart of their business, the Clarkes see Uasau as a product serving the North, returning traditional Inuit cultural practices and the healing properties of the bowhead whale to their community in a contemporary way.
Photo by Jeffery Burnett, CBC Docs
30 years after an historic fight against clear cutting, Indigenous communities are still fighting for forests
Published in CBC Docs | March 17, 2023
Two directors tell the story of the people trying to protect some of our last old-growth forests
Photo by Adrienne Row-Smith, The Narwhal
Ottawa’s Greenbelt is federally owned but not federally protected
Published in The Narwhal | February 1, 2023
The horseshoe of wetlands, forests and farms between Ottawa’s downtown and suburbs isn’t immediately at risk from Ontario’s new development policies. But it’s still threatened, which is why some think it should be made a national park.
Photo by Kamara Morozuk, The Narwhal
Chiefs of Ontario want development-friendly More Homes Built Faster Act repealed
Published in The Narwhal | December 9, 2022
First Nations chiefs say Housing Minister Steve Clark requested meeting on omnibus housing bill, then disappeared: a ‘blatant disregard of our nation-to-nation relationship’
Photo by Jesse Winter, The Globe and Mail
Olympic race walker Evan Dunfee hopes to take lessons of success on the track into local politics
Published in The Globe and Mail | September 10, 2022
Evan Dunfee began race walking when he was about 10 years old because he wanted to be the best at something. Twenty years later, he crossed the finish line at the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, England, with a record-breaking gold medal.
Photo by Jeff Mcintosh, The Canadian Press
The housing crisis in Canmore, Alta., is driving out doctors, families and development
Published in The Globe and Mail | September 10, 2022
Housing has long been an issue in Canmore, a former mining town of about 16,000 about an hour’s drive east of Calgary. A combination of a seasonal workforce, vacation properties and several failed attempts at building new housing have pushed up prices and squeezed supply.
Photo by Crystal Mercredi, The Globe and Mail
Elders want historic church in Alberta’s Fort Chipewyan rebuilt, chief says
Published in The Globe and Mail | August 26, 2022
The chief of the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation says the fire that destroyed one of Alberta’s oldest churches this week is a significant loss and that elders in the community want it rebuilt.
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Indigenous designer transforms Hudson’s Bay blankets into coats
Published in The Globe and Mail | August 8, 2022
For Stephanie Crowchild, sewing is a healing practice, a process for revitalization and a way of reclaiming her identity as an Indigenous woman after a period of personal darkness.
Photo by Jason Franson, The Canadian Press
Indigenous survivors look to move past anger after papal visit
Published in The Globe and Mail | August 1, 2022
For some survivors, the meeting with the Pope was an opportunity to voice demands for further justice. For others, like Noella Robinson and Joan. St. Denis, the meeting was a chance to put aside anger and move forward with healing.
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Pope Francis renews his residential schools apology in Quebec
Published in The Globe and Mail | July 27, 2022
In a province where Catholicism once dominated many facets of life, Pope Francis renewed his apology to Indigenous people for the harms caused by many Catholic members in government-funded residential schools.
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Chief Littlechild’s headdress gift to Pope Francis carries heavy significance
Published in The Globe and Mail | July 26, 2022
Made of mostly eagle feathers, the type of headdress commonly known as a war bonnet is a sacred, traditional item that has been worn by Prairie First Nations leaders for hundreds of years. The bestowing of a headdress can carry multiple meanings, knowledge keepers and elders say, and there was a purpose to placing it atop Pope Francis after he apologized on Monday for decades of abuses at Catholic-run residential schools.
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Support workers to aid residential schools survivors during Pope Francis visit
Published in The Globe and Mail | July 25, 2022
300 cultural support workers will be on hand in Alberta to aid residential school survivors during the Pope’s historic apology
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This couple spent eight years searching for a condo in Toronto that fit their accessibility needs
Published in The Globe and Mail | July 22, 2022
Eager to move from an apartment with a shower kept together by duct tape, the Roses went on the hunt for an accessible home.
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Indigenous nations, organizers struggle to secure space for residential school survivors for papal visit
Published in The Globe and Mail | July 18, 2022
Indigenous groups say they are worried that many residential school survivors will not be able to attend Pope Francis’s appearances across Canada later this month, owing to ticket shortages and poor communication from the Catholic Church and the federal government.
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Sport Minister Pascale St-Onge wants to break the culture of silence around abuse in sports
Published in The Globe and Mail | July 15, 2022
Minister of Sport Pascale St-Onge wants to be a “change maker” in Canadian politics. She’s starting with the Canadian sport landscape, working to break the culture of silence surrounding abuse and to bring joy back to sports.
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Hockey Canada’s culture must change in wake of ‘extremely horrific’ sexual-assault allegations, Sport Minister says
Published in The Globe and Mail | July 6, 2022
Hockey Canada’s handling of sexual-assault allegations involving eight Canadian Hockey League members, including players with the gold-medal-winning world junior team, reveals a culture problem within the organization that needs to change, federal Minister of Sport Pascale St-Onge says.
Photo by Sean Kilpatrick, The Canadian Press
RCMP considered whether to charge Justin Trudeau over Aga Khan trip, documents show
Published in The Globe and Mail | April 25, 2022
The RCMP considered charging Justin Trudeau with fraud over a family vacation at the Aga Khan’s private island in the Bahamas, but decided against doing so because it was unclear if the Prime Minister had the authority to approve the all-expenses-paid gift for himself.
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Rise in hate crimes connected to pandemic and greater political polarization, Trudeau says
Published in The Globe and Mail | April 20, 2022
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said the reported spike in hate crimes in Canada can be linked to the COVID-19 pandemic and greater political polarization.
Graphic by Planet Labs, The Globe and Mail
Inuit feminists call for renaming of islands that slur Indigenous women
Published in The Globe and Mail | March 18, 2022
Leader of Qulliit says Nunavut women's group will work to change the current name, which is considered an ethnic and sexual slur.
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Saskatchewan chief Bear won’t endorse Poilievre, despite being featured in Conservative leadership candidate’s social media
Published in The Globe and Mail | March 13, 2022
The chief of one of Saskatchewan’s most economically successful nations says he is not endorsing Pierre Poilievre even though the front runner in the Conservative party race has been featuring him prominently in social media posts.
Everything but the fairy tale ending
Published in CBC Sports | July 29, 2021
I stand at the start line behind my blocks, trying to see through the pouring rain that is beating down on me...
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Indigenous and Black communities have a shared past of injustice. They deserve a shared future of justice
Published in The Globe and Mail | May 29, 2021
Solidarity in the face of systemic racism and police violence is more than just symbolic; it’s the latest stage in a common struggle against colonialism. What will the next stages be?