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The Health Council of Canada releases annual report on health care renewal SASKATOON, SK, May 23, 2013 /CNW/ - Today, the Health Council of Canada releases Progress Report 2013: Health care renewal in Canada, highlighting the progress achieved by governments in five key areas: wait times, primary health care and electronic health records, pharmaceuticals management, disease prevention/health promotion and Aboriginal health. The report finds that, overall, efforts at reform...

LONDON, May 9, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- A young man who suffered a horrific injury within hours of arriving at his holiday destination has finally won his five year battle for compensation The incident happened shortly after the student and a group of friends arrived in the Greek resort of Faliraki in the summer of 2007. "My client had been in the hotel complex only a couple of hours when his ordeal began," said Nicola Simpson, a travel and international litigation...

TORONTO, March 13, 2013 /CNW/ - Dr. Colin Carrie, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Health, today announced on behalf of the Honourable Leona Aglukkaq, Minister of Health, an investment under the Public Health Agency of Canada's Healthy Living Fund to support three community-based projects managed by partner organizations in the Greater Toronto Area. "We want to increase opportunities for Canadians to be physically active so they can lead a healthier lifestyle," said...

LONGMONT, Colo., Feb. 4, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A new Native American Food Sovereignty Alliance is actively being formed following a successful introductory webinar about the effort that was held on Thursday, Jan. 31, 2013, and which attracted nearly 200 interested parties from across the U.S. First Nations Development Institute (First Nations), based in Longmont, and the Taos County Economic Development Corporation (TCEDC), based in Taos, New Mexico, held the webinar and...

TSX: GPD     TSX.V:RTZ     TSX.SPD WHITEHORSE, YT, Jan. 30, 2013 /PRNewswire/ - The Kaska Nation, as represented by Ross River Dena Council and the Liard First Nation, and the Predator Group represented by Golden Predator Corp. (TSX:GPD), Golden Predator Canada Corp., Redtail Metals Corp. (TSX.V:RTZ) and Silver Predator Corp. (TSX:SPD) announced today that they have signed an Exploration Agreement with respect to activities within the traditional territory of the Kaska...

LETHBRIDGE, AB, Jan. 14, 2013 /CNW/ - Jim Hillyer, Member of Parliament for Lethbridge, on behalf of the Honourable Leona Aglukkaq, Minister of Health and Member of Parliament for Nunavut, announced funding for a project to provide a culturally enriched preschool readiness program for urban Aboriginal children between three and five years of age living in Lethbridge. "The Government of Canada's Aboriginal Head Start in Urban and Northern Communities program is proven to improve...

LONGMONT, Colo., Jan. 3, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- First Nations Development Institute (First Nations) today announced it has received $20,000 from the Comcast Foundation to fund production of video public service advertisements (PSAs), plus $1 million worth of airtime from Comcast to broadcast the PSAs. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20130103/DC31913) The grant from the Comcast Foundation is in recognition of Comcast's commitment to the communities where its...

Backgrounder: B.C. Tripartite Health Partnership Accord Health Partnership Accord VANCOUVER, Dec. 17, 2012 /CNW/ - Federal Health Minister Leona Aglukkaq, British Columbia Health Minister Margaret MacDiarmid, and Grand Chief Doug Kelly, Chair of the BC First Nations Health Council signed a Health Partnership Accord today re-affirming their long-term commitment and shared vision for a better, more responsive and integrated health system for First Nations in British Columbia....

Mistrust and racism are cited in a new report as barriers to Aboriginal people using health care services in urban centres WINNIPEG, Dec. 11, 2012 /CNW/ - Today the Health Council of Canada releases Empathy, dignity, and respect: Creating cultural safety for Aboriginal people in urban health care, a report that highlights some of the reasons why many Aboriginal people are not seeking care in mainstream health care settings and describes key practices that are working towards...

VANCOUVER, Sept. 25, 2012 /CNW/ - The Forest Products Association of Canada (FPAC) has awarded the first annual Skills Award for Indigenous Youth to Baillie Redfern, an M.Sc graduate student studying Genome Science and Technology at the University of British Columbia. The $2,500 award is targeted at youth from 18 to 25 who are enrolled in an apprenticeship program, college or in university who are a First Nations, Métis or Inuit individual with strong academic standing, and who...