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Posted: Apr 24, 2021 4:00 AM ET | Last Updated: April 24
Tyrone McCorrister-Choken has gone from learning how to shave his own head in a mirror to working with players from the Winnipeg Jets, and soon he will have his own shop in Selkirk, Man.(Lenard Monkman/CBC)
With clients ranging from professional athletes to kids back home on the rez, two barbers in Winnipeg are cutting the latest trends and are ready to create their own path as business owners. My favourite thing about barbering is that it s not work, it s art, said Tyrone McCorrister-Choken, who is Anishinaabe from Peguis First Nation. It s something that I look forward to doing and is something that I don t get up Monday morning or Tuesday morning and be like, Damn, I have to go do this again. It s something that I can get up and be like, I want to go have fun and, you know, have a good day with my clients.
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Posted: Apr 09, 2021 8:50 PM CT | Last Updated: April 10
Pimicikimak Cree Nation Chief David Monias receives his second COVID-19 shot from University of Manitoba Rady Faculty of Health Dean Dr. Brian Postl. (Cameron MacIntosh/CBC)
The chief of Pimicikamak Cree Nation says 65 per cent of his community s eligible population has been vaccinated against COVID-19.
The community also known as Cross Lake, located about 530 kilometres north of Winnipeg held a mass vaccination clinic the last week of March, immunizing hundreds of members each day.
A second mass clinic was held over two days this week for anyone else who wanted the shot. I m very proud … it s a big community, said Chief David Monias.
Last Updated: Thursday, April 8, 2021 07:58
Despite fears expressed by many in Canada and around the world about the heightened vulnerability Indigenous communities faced from COVID 19, members of those communities–at least the ones living in Canada, it appears–have managed to sidestep the worst of those predictions.
(The 2016 census found that Indigenous peoples in Canada totalled 1,673,785 people, or 4.9% of the national population, with 977,230 First Nations people, 587,545 Métis, and 65,025 Inuit.)
And, the new figures suggest, that COVID-19 cases on reserves in Canada have dropped more than 85 per cent since January.
Elders at the Wikwemikong Nursing Home in Wikwemikong First Nation in Ontario took to social media in March to share the importance of social distancing and self-isolation during the global COVID-19 pandemic. A Statistics Canada study released in June found that 60 per cent of Indigenous people said their mental health has worsened since the onset o