The Northern Haida Gwaii Hospital is still facing closures despite repeated calls for action to address gaps in the Masset, B.C., ER. Meanwhile, the hospital in Haida Gwaii's Daajing Giids stays open, with a union executive pointing to better housing near the southern Haida Gwaii hospital.

Kanienkeh:ka woman Edith Anderson Monture was the first First Nations woman in Canada to become a nurse, the first Indigenous woman from Canada to serve in the U.S. military, and the first Indigenous woman to vote in a federal election.

Laurie Rousseau-Nepton is the first Indigenous woman in Canada to earn a PhD in astrophysics. Valrie Courtois is the first Indigenous person to receive the Shackleton Medal, a prize acknowledging leadership in protecting the world's polar regions.