Canadian Aboriginal people’s health and the Kelowna deal
In 2005, the Kelowna deal promised to tackle the health gap between Canada’s 1·1 million Aboriginal people and the rest of the country. But since a change of government earlier …
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CANADIAN INDIGENOUS HEALTH INEQUITIES: A politically-driven disaster
Canadian petrochemical plants blamed for gender imbalance
Residents of Canada’s Aamjiwnaang reserve have long blamed their health problems on the petrochemical plants that crowd the landscape. But scant evidence supported their claims — until now.
Minority health care remains a problem for Canada’s leaders
Doubling federal funding for health is a key pledge of the Canadian government’s ambitious plan to strengthen health care. The strategy should appease critics who blame underfunding of health services …
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Health in the Arctic Circle
High levels of toxic contaminants have been recorded in several Arctic regions. But the full health effects of exposure to these chemicals are only just emerging. Meet the scientists studying …
Study Finds Heavy Contamination Across Vast Russian Arctic
The first comprehensive look at persistent toxic substances (PTS) across the Russian Arctic reinforces what studies in other Arctic nations have revealed: that indigenous peoples in this northern swath of …
Everyday Poisons — Are fire retardants actually a toxic hazard?
When Robert Hale travelled down to Chesapeake Bay on the coast of Virginia to take a professorship at the Institute of Marine Science in Glocester Point, he expected to be …
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For Precarious Cultures, Pollutants Present New Perils
The biggest ever study of Arctic pollutants paints a picture of an ecosystem under siege—with potentially grave consequences for denizens of Earth’s northernmost reaches.