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The Manawan community is still reeling from the death of Joyce Echaquan in 2020. It was a watershed moment for a community which often felt ignored and neglected by local health and services establishments in Joliette. It also forced the Quebec government to take a position on systemic racism a form of discrimination entrenched through generations of exclusion. To this day, the Atikamekw community is afraid to show up at the hospital. ....
Three years to the day after Joyce Echaquan died in a hail of racist insults at the Joliette Hospital in Lanaudiere, her memory will be honoured at a march in the city on Thursday evening. ....
Three years to the day after Joyce Echaquan died in a hail of racist insults at the Joliette Hospital in Lanaudiere, her memory will be honoured at a march in the city on Thursday evening. ....