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The Manitoba NDP are reacting to a letter sent out yesterday by the Canadian Nurses Association (CNA) that is asking for all levels of government to take steps to address anti-Indigenous racism and inequities facing Indigenous people, and to fund and deliver services needed to “redress the legacy of Indian Residential Schools.”
“As frontline health-care workers, nurses see the impacts of systemic anti-Indigenous racism in Manitoba every day and they’re fed up with inaction from all levels of government,” NDP Health-care critic Uzoma Asagwara said in an email on Wednesday.
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From discounts on meals and hotel stays to priority in shop queues, thankfulness takes diverse forms.
Muscat: Hotels, restaurants, and supermarkets in Oman are doing their bit to thank frontline workers for the care and dedication they have shown to COVID patients during the pandemic.
From discounts on meals and hotel stays to priority in shop queues, companies are trying to ease the toll that the coronavirus pandemic has taken on doctors, nurses, paramedics, and other healthcare workers in the country.
“Our frontline workers are tirelessly and selflessly working to keep COVID patients alive during these very challenging times,” said Arup Singh Deo, director of operations and projects at Al Nahda Hotels and Resort. “We are offering them discounts during their stay with us, as it is our way of saying thank you for doing their bit to stop the spread of the pandemic.
This National Nursing Week, we need more than supportive tweets and well wishes
Nurses are the heart of health care. We have answered the call, and you have heard us all. Will the lawmakers respond?
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Posted: May 13, 2021 5:00 AM ET | Last Updated: May 13
Throughout her career as a nurse, Yvonne Sam writes that low staffing was an ongoing challenge, leaving her feeling overworked and worried about providing adequate care to patients.(Submitted by Yvonne Sam)
At committee: Cabinet secrecy, elder abuse, pre-study of budget bill By Kady O Malley. Published on May 13, 2021 6:30am
In what is becoming a regular occurrence on the House committee circuit, PROCEDURE AND HOUSE AFFAIRS members will retreat behind closed doors to go over the scope and, where applicable, limitations of parliamentary privilege and cabinet secrecy this time, in relation to internal data on the Canada Emergency Wage Subsidy.
Last month, the committee agreed to convene an in camera panel with senior officials from the
Privy Council Office, the
Office of the Auditor General and the
Law Clerk and Parliamentary Counsel of the House “to explain and clarify the administrative procedures for invoking the concept of ‘Cabinet secrecy’ respecting the data the Department of Finance shared with the Office of the Auditor General for her audit of the Canada Emergency Wage Subsidy,” which, as per the motion, “are not available to parliamentarians,