How those working within and outside of Sask. s health-care system are fighting systemic racism Practitioners say racism and discrimination persist within Saskatchewan health care, shaping the care patients receive and the personal health of those who provide it.
Author of the article: Zak Vescera
Publishing date: Jun 03, 2021 • 2 hours ago • 10 minute read • Most Canadians think of their health care system as being free and equal. But Saskatchewan practitioners say racism and discrimination persist within, shaping the care patients receive and the personal health of the people who provide it. Photo by Saskatoon StarPhoenix /Saskatoon StarPhoenix
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Dr. Veronica McKinney was working at a clinic in west Saskatoon when a man in his 40s entered asking for pain medication. He seemed brusque, uninterested in talking, and McKinney sensed something was wrong. She asked to examine the man to find the source of his pain. As she began, he started
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To find a Saskatoon man not criminally responsible for the stabbing death of his spouse, a Queen’s Bench judge must find he was suffering from a mental disorder at the time of the offence that rendered him incapable of knowing it was wrong.
Much of that determination will hinge on whether or not Justice Ronald Mills accepts what Blake Jeffrey Schreiner said was going through his mind as he stabbed Tammy Brown 80 times in their River Heights neighbourhood home on Jan. 29, 2019.
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