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Podcast Episode Transcript & Companion Document: Bonus episode – Building health equity-focused public health organizations (Mind the Disruption, Season 1, Episode 8)

This episode companion document provides a new way to engage with the Mind the Disruption podcast. It includes a written transcript of Season 1, Episode 8 “Bonus episode – Building health equity-focused public health organizations” with key quotes and related resources to prompt further reflection and exploration.

Towards untying colonial knots in Canadian health systems: A net metaphor for settler-colonialism

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.”