Status of Women committee  It's a very important question that you put forward. I'm involved with a number of different things with regard to suicide prevention, including the applied suicide intervention skills training. We provide that to grow capacity within our communities as often as possible. It's t

Status of Women committee  Now, changing it around a bit, there's also availability through different organizations. I mentioned Eastern Door Feather Carriers. They're looking at suicide prevention through an indigenous lens to help people reconnect with the land, with their culture, with their traditions

Status of Women committee  For rural women, access to community services is going to be one of the biggest obstacles they face. Let me give you an example from here, locally. Many of the volunteers in our community are seniors, and they're the most vulnerable in the COVID-19 pandemic. Many seniors take ca

Status of Women committee  Thank you, Madam Chair. As you announced earlier, I work with the Bay St. George Status of Women Council as their executive director. I've been in the role since January of this year. It was certainly a baptism by fire come mid-March when a lot of things changed here in Newfound