in case you missed it, here's an interesting story on the federal government response to the aboriginal communities being hit by swine flu in manitoba
the cbc story has a network of links leading up to this story, if a bit less detail.
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ah, nuts...the original link won't work. you can see the story here:
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there's more detail in this one.
Thanks Colin, for bringing this story to our attention. One has to wonder whether this same action would have been taken had the supplies been sent to a white community. TW
ReplyDeletesomehow i doubt it. the reasons for that may be worthy of discussion, tho. is it newsworthy if the community isn't marginalized in the first place? given the history of governmental relations with first nations peoples, there's an obvious (or apparently not, for some) tension there. but what other factors could we consider...
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