Not even being forbidden to speak her language in residential school, nor a 19-month stint in the tuberculosis ward of a hospital as a teen, stopped Dorothy Visser from speaking, writing and eventually teaching the Cree language.

A Downtown Eastside resident feels like she lost her late mother a second time after Vancouver Police Department officers and city workers trashed a suitcase she says contained the deceased womans ashes.

Advocates say creating culturally appropriate clinics with trusted migrant organizations would reduce vaccine hesitancy among undocumented migrants.

Outreach workers from three different First Nations are now walking the streets of the Downtown Eastside, bringing hope for recovery to one person at a time.

Urban Indigenous advocates are adding their voices to those calling for better data on race and mortality from COVID-19,in light of a growing body of research that shows communities with larger populations of visible minorities have been harder hit by the disease than the general population.

B.C. Indigenous fishermen established the right to their own economic opportunity fisheries in 1992. But commercial interests opposed the move, and protests were heated and racial. Nearly three decadeslater, the racism remains, say B.C. Indigenous fishermen.