I assume everyone who follows me on this bird app knows how important I think vaccination is, but maybe you don’t. I work with the sickest, most vulnerable children. If you’ve ever laid it all out as a health professional to wrestle a patient from the jaws of death, you know how hard it is to think about someone not doing everything they can to keep their neighbour safe.

CW: residential schools, genocide

A very special morning. As part of a process of reckoning and truth telling about the Church’s role in the Indian Residential School System, and the deep and painful impact of Canada’s colonial policies on Indigenous People… 1/x …the St Andrew’s Wesley United Church in Vancouver have commissioned Squamish Nation artist Xwalacktun, OBC, to design a Coast Salish house post. This piece will honour the children who were lost, and tell the story without burying the history. 2/x

Today a group of health professionals wrote an open letter to @KenWyattMP calling for urgent measures to help prevent the catastrophic impact of #COVID19 on #Aboriginal and #TorresStraitIslander communities. We have advocated for a number of measures. 1/x 1. Clear protocols to cease non-essential FIFO contact with isolated local workers and community + adequate hygiene measures at every point.

2. The urgent release of many #Aboriginal and #TorresStraitIslander minor offenders from custody.

#COVID19 2/x