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MEDIA INDIGENA 236

Added 2020-12-09 23:46:01 +0000 UTC

Immunizing Indians / MI 236

ON THIS WEEK'S INDIGENOUS ROUNDTABLE:

Pandemic pandering. A western Canadian premier denounced by critics for bungling the province’s COVID response has now come under fire for questionable comments about immunizing Indians. (We should probably narrow that down: Alberta and Saskatchewan ain’t exactly paragons of public health these days.)

We’re talking Manitoba, where Brian Pallister’s gone on-record as saying that federal moves to ensure First Nations get vaccines would somehow leave less for everybody else...? Trust us: that's only mildly paraphrased. Joining host/producer Rick Harp to review the real rhetoric used by the premier are Ken Williams, assistant professor with the University of Alberta’s department of drama, and Brock Pitawanakwat, Associate Professor of Indigenous Studies at York University.

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LINKS REFERENCED / CONSULTED THIS EPISODE:

• Manitoba premier says COVID-19 vaccine rollout is 'lifeboat time,' calls for more clarity from Ottawa CBC Manitoba

• Manitoba premier wants extra doses of vaccine if Ottawa reserves portion for First Nations CBC Manitoba

• "Rock Bottom: Manitoba’s Brian Pallister is Now the Most Unpopular Premier in Canada" Press Progress

• Aboriginal people used in vote-splitting scheme: Windspeaker

• Manitoba Tories guilty of vote rigging CBC News

• Manitoba launches campaign to restart economic recovery in province CTV News [12 August 2020]

• Emerging COVID-19 success story: South Korea learned the lessons of MERS Our World in Data

• Why New Zealand decided to go for full elimination of the coronavirus New Scientist

• Australian state’s four-point plan to eliminate COVID-19 worked; Alberta did the opposite on every count AlbertaPolitics.ca

• Victoria eases Covid restrictions again as it reaches 37 days without a case The Guardian

>> "THIS JUST IN" >>

And in a 'late-breaking,' post-recording development, CBC now reports Pallister claims he secured more vaccines for the province based on the, um, logic of his incendiary diatribe. What any of it will mean for actual distribution of the vaccine—and to whom—remains to be seen.