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Systemic racism in Quebec health care is long-standing, doctor says [Montreal Gazette]

A pediatric emergency physician at Montreal’s Children’s Hospital, Samir Shaheen-Hussain has been fighting against discrimination in Quebec’s health care network for years. Photo by Allen McInnis /Montreal Gazette Systemic racism in Quebec health care is long-standing, doctor says Appalling treatment of Joyce Echaquan was, sadly, no surprise, says physician and …

Dr. Samir Shaheen-Hussain: A history of Canada’s medical colonialism against Indigenous people and why it needs to be recognized as genocide

This op-ed by Dr. Samir Shaheen-Hussain, author of Fighting for a Hand to Hold: Confronting Medical Colonialism against Indigenous Children in Canada, was originally published in the Toronto Star on May 5, 2021. On April 1 — a month our Canadian government recognizes as Genocide Remembrance, Condemnation and Prevention Month …