‘I think action is going to be taken’: stakeholders still awaiting big moves on scrapping racism in health care

A year out from Joyce Echaquan's death and a comprehensive B.C. report on anti-Indigenous racism in the health-care system, there has been some movement with government-led dialogues, and funding commitments.

Senator Yvonne Boyer, left, and her aunt Lucy Boyer, have both experienced racism firsthand in medical contexts. The Canada Health Act needs to be reviewed, with a focus on implementing new standards that will address racism in health care, she says.Photograph courtesy of Sky Losier

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BY ALICE CHEN

December 8, 2021

“Sometimes the monsters walk the halls.” That was something Independent Senator Yvonne Boyer (Ontario) heard from her aunt, Lucy Boyer, who was kept in a tuberculosis sanatorium for 10 years from 1924 to 1934, half of which was spent in a body cast. “She talked quietly about sexual abuse, sh...

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