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Refugee health care’s coming back. Will doctors get the memo?

February 19, 2016February 21, 2016amp Leave a comment

February 19, 2016 – Anna Mehler Paperny, Global News

The six-year-old girl with an agonizing stomachache was turned away from the Montreal walk-in clinic: They only treat refugees who pay a fee first, they said.

The girl’s mom couldn’t afford the fee. So they left.

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What’s killing babies in Canada’s North?

February 17, 2016February 21, 2016amp Leave a comment

February 17, 2016 – Anna Mehler Paperny, Global News

Nunavut’s a dangerous place to be a baby: Its youngest residents are more than four times more likely to die before their first birthday than babies elsewhere in Canada.

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Aboriginal-Canadian women are 6 times more likely to be murdered, 3 times more likely to be raped

November 25, 2015December 28, 2015amp Leave a comment

November 25, 2016 – Anna Mehler Paperny, Global News

If you’re a First Nations, Inuit or Metis individual living in Canada you are 6.4 times more likely to be killed than anyone else in the country.

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