This report from the House of Commons Standing Committee on Indigenous and Northern Affairs analyzes the housing crisis facing Indigenous Peoples in Canada, including its physical and mental health impacts. The report presents 20 recommendations to address systemic inequities and support long-term, sustainable and self-determined housing solutions.
Increase use and equitable enjoyment of public spaces, to reduce gender inequities rooted in the built environment.
Join us for an engaging webinar exploring British Columbia's Population and Public Health Framework: Strengthening Public Health. Participants will gain valuable insight into wise practices and lessons learned, and opportunities to continue to collaborate toward equitable and sustainable population and public health action.
This article employs the metaphor that settler colonialism functions as a net with innumerable “colonial knots” that Indigenous Peoples in Canada are trapped within and that prevent them from being able to exercise self-determination and sovereignty. The authors propose that the work of health leaders to dismantle Indigenous-specific racism, White supremacy and settler colonialism requires dedicated, everyday efforts to “untie colonial knots.”
This report describes a project by the Direction régionale de santé publique du CIUSSS du Centre-Sud-de-l’Île-de-Montréal to identify and describe the experiences of older people related to social participation and isolation as determinants of health.