Dozens of Montrealers gathered Wednesday to remember Joyce Echaquan, an Atikamekw woman whose death in a Joliette hospital sparked an uproar and a public reckoning with systemic racism that continues two years later.
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Two years and a day after the death of Joyce Echaquan at a hospital near Joliette, Que., the Atikamekw woman's family announced Thursday that they are launching a civil suit against the regional health authority that oversees it.
Quebec health-care professionals say the compulsory training developed following Joyce Echaquan's death does little to combat racism, prejudices or harmful misconceptions in the province's health-care system.
CAQ leader François Legault apologized to Joyce Echaquan s husband Carol Dubé on Tuesday after suggesting the problems at Joliette hospital, where the Atikamekw woman died, were fixed.