I am a doctor. Since Joyce Echaquan’s death, I have been remembering dozens of conversations with patients and families at the Manawan dispensary who begged me – who negotiated – not to be “sent down” to the hospital in Joliette, Que., for fear of the care, of the reception, of not being understood, of not being heard, of being denigrated. …
Paul Chiasson/La Presse canadienne Joyce Echaquan's husband Carol Dubé and mother Diane Echaquan attend a candlelight vigil in front of the Joliette, Que. “Everytime something truly heart-wrenching happens in the community, it’s almost cathartic to bring people together to mourn and share their anger,” the executive director of the Native Women’s Shelter of Montreal told HuffPost Québec. Pointing to the …
UPDATE - October 1st, 2020: At the time this story was published, only one nurse captured in the video had been fired. MONTREAL — The death of an Atikamekw woman who livestreamed a Quebec hospital worker’s racist insults in the last moments of her life has left the province reeling, with some calling Joyce Echaquan the province’s “own George Floyd.” …
