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Apr 21, 2022 · Samir Shaheen-Hussain, a pediatric emergency physician, does not hold back in his historical scholarship detailing the pain and death of Indigenous children, their parents and their elders, pain inflicted by us – health professionals – under the authority of the Canadian state and its colonial predecessor.
May 7, 2021 · The violence historically inflicted by the Canadian medical establishment on Indigenous peoples, with physicians often leading the charge using public funds, applies to all five acts outlined in the UN Genocide Convention.
Launched by healthcare providers in January 2018, the #aHand2Hold campaign confronted the Quebec government's practice of separating children from their families during medical evacuation airlifts, which disproportionately affected remote and northern Indigenous communities.
Samir Shaheen-Hussain’s Fighting for a Hand to Hold explores how a policy in Quebec disallowing Indigenous parents to accompany their sick children on medevac flights resulted in significant, actively constructed barriers to care. These barriers exposed how colonialism in Canadian medicine functions to continue its violent legacy.
Oct 15, 2021 · Shaheen-Hussain’s book describes the colonial systems underlying the longstanding practice of medical evacuations without parental accompaniment of Indigenous children in Quebec– a practice that his advocacy efforts helped to finally change.
May 26, 2023 · Fighting for A Hand to Hold exposes the Canadian medical establishment’s role in the displacement, colonization, and genocide of Indigenous Peoples — colonial genocide. Through meticulously gathered government documentation, historical scholarship, media reports, public inquiries, and personal testimonies, Samir Shaheen-Hussain connects the ...
Dec 15, 2003 · With the arrest of Saddam Hussein, there is a new opportunity for the members of the former regime, whether military or civilian, to end their bitter opposition. Let them now come forward in a ...
