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Members of the Indigenous Interprofessional Primary Care Team brought their mobile clinic to a Kingston hotel to treat evacuees from Kashechewan First Nation who had been abruptly displaced by yet another failure of their community’s drinking water system. (Jamaica Cass)

What treating Kashechewan evacuees reveals about Canada’s drinking water crisis: Policy failure is an Indigenous health issue

Jamaica Cass, Queen's University, Ontario

In a country with the capacity to ensure safe water for all, persistent water insecurity in Indigenous communities represents a preventable policy failure — one that’s reflected in health issues.
A water bottle sits on the table in front of Chief and NDP candidate Rudy Turtle during a visit by NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh on Oct. 5, 2019 on the Grassy Narrows First Nation, where industrial mercury poisoning in its water system has seriously affected the health of the community. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Paul Chiasson

A sin tax on sugary drinks unfairly targets Indigenous communities instead of improving health

Myra J Tait, Athabasca University and Natalie Diane Riediger, University of Manitoba

A tax on sugar-sweetened beverages may be intended to improve health, but for Indigenous consumers, such a tax would be unethical, contravene tax law and undermine Indigenous rights.

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  1. Clean water
  2. Diet
  3. Drinking water
  4. Environmental justice
  5. First Nations
  6. Indigenous
  7. Indigenous health
  8. Soda

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