How Canada forgot it once had a segregated health system

MAY 12, 202654 MIN
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How Canada forgot it once had a segregated health system

MAY 12, 202654 MIN

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<p>In the days before her medically-assisted death, journalist Elaine Dewar made it her mission to finish writing her book revealing ignored history. For more than three years, the author investigated how Canada's health care system cruelly mistreated Indigenous people — including forcing them to use segregated hospitals. Dewar's extensive research uncovers not only a shameful past, but that our collective obliviousness to it all was deliberately manufactured.</p>