Northern Routes

Summer is here along with my top 10 list of things to do this season!

Aanin, Boozhoo, Tanshi, Kwe Kwe, Bonjour, Hello, With the end of the pandemic in sight, I hope you are ready to get out there and hang with friends and family, soon. Let’s get our second doses and have that long-overdue visit with loved ones! It is time to plan vacations, wriggle your toes in the sand, soak up the sunshine, drink tall cool beverages and barbeque. Summer is one of my favourite times of the year. Here are my top ten ideas for things to do, see, eat and hear this summer: Invent a summer cocktail. Try herbs, muddling citrus fruits and exotic mixes with passion fruit, mango or kiwi fruits. Put an umbrella in it ...

NOSM MD Program receives full accreditation: What happens next?

NOSM became the first medical school to complete a two-step virtual accreditation visit for an MD program late last year. This extensive, voluntary peer-evaluation process is critical to ensuring compliance with accepted standards for educational quality. Through accreditation, the Committee on Accreditation of Canadian Medical Schools (CACMS) provides assurance to medical students, graduates, the medical profession, health-care institutions, health authorities, regulatory authorities and—importantly, the public—that educational programs culminating in the award of the MD degree meet reasonable, generally-accepted, and appropria...

Facing acts of hatred: Be courageous, compassionate and kind.

This has been a sad month with the discovery of remains of 215 Indigenous children on the Tk'emlúps te Secwépemc First Nation site of the former Kamloops Indian Residential School in British Columbia and the senseless tragedy that took place in London, Ontario with the deaths of four members of a Muslim family and one nine-year-old badly injured and orphaned. These events occurring at the same time as pandemic-related conflicts, including anti-Asian racism, the conflict in Gaza, Black Lives Matter, mental health surges, and long-term care challenges have exposed the tragic impacts on both our young, aged and vulnerable populations. I...