Bill No. 618 An Act Respecting a Provincial Strategy for Suicide Prevention

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Bill 618:

• ‘Sask. legislature votes down suicide prevention bill’ (June 2020)
• ‘Sask. NDP bill focused on suicide prevention defeated by government’ (June 2020)
• ‘Vermette re-introduces bill aimed at establishing provincial suicide strategy’
• (November 2019)
• ‘‘I’m tired, I’m hurt, I’m angry’: Vermette disappointed by shut down suicide prevention strategy bill’ (June 2020)
• ‘Health minister not committing to Vermette’s suicide prevention strategy’ (November 2019)

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        Articles:

• ‘Hunger strike begins at Sask. legislature following 635-km suicide prevention trek’ (August 2020)
• ‘Protestors erect tipi at Sask. Legislative Building to end suicide prevention march’ (July 2020)
• ‘Walking With Our Angels: Saskatchewan’s Indigenous Suicide Crisis’ (July 2020)
• ‘‘Covert genocide’: Province gets a ‘D’ on suicide prevention (July 2020)
• ‘Defeat of suicide prevention bill sparks anger, protest walk’ (July 2020)
• ‘Advocate calls for legislation to address Saskatchewan’s high Indigenous suicide rate’ (July 2020)
• ‘Walk to pile of bones’ (July 2020)
• ‘Traverser la Saskatchewan à pied pour lutter contre le suicide chez les Autochtones’ (6 juillet 2020)
• ‘Fed up with playing music at funerals, north Sask. fiddler walks to legislature to call for suicide prevention help’ (July 2020)
• ‘NDP leader, police chief attend Walking With Our Angels rally held in Saskatoon’ (July 2020)
• ‘State of emergency declared on Makwa Sahgaiehcan First Nation after suicides, attempts’ (November 2019)
• ‘Southern Sask. First Nation declares state of emergency following 4 suicides, sets up crisis hotline’ (December 2019)
• Ochapowace Nation Communique - State of Emergency Declaration (December 2019)
• ‘Onion Lake declares state of emergency over gang activity’ (January 2020)  

        videos:

• ‘He walked 635 km to Regina and is going on a hunger strike to raise awareness about suicide’ (July 2020)
• ‘Month-long mental health trek arrives in Regina’ (July 2020)
• ‘Sask. man goes the distance’ (July 2020)

podcast:

• Still Here, Still Healing Episode 1: Tristen Durocher & Walking With Our Angels (July 2020)

Suicide prevention and public health crisis:

• ‘Suicide prevention strategy sorely needed in Sask.: U of S prof’
• ‘Challenges facing Sask. Indigenous youth are ‘relatively flat or getting worse’: children’s advocate’ (April 2019)
• ‘Saskatchewan Budget 2019: Mental health and addictions gets $30M funding increase (March 2019)
• ‘$30M in mental health funding shows Sask. ‘playing catch up’: NDP’ (March 2019)
• ‘2020-21 Budget Strengthens Health Care in Saskatchewan’ (Gov’t of SK, June 2020)
• ‘Canada’s ‘public health crisis’ of suicide needs funded prevention plan: CMAJ editorial’
• ‘Work with Inuit on suicide; don’t prescribe solutions, ITK urges feds’ (June 2016)
• ‘Inuit-led suicide prevention strategy to focus on mental wellness, social equity’ (July 2016)
• ‘Cree communities launched and funded own inquiry into ‘suicide pandemic’’ (March 2016)
• ‘Poverty, inequality fuelling suicide crisis, First Nations leader says’ (March 2016)
• ‘‘People’s Inquiry’ into First Nations suicide stops in Attawapiskat’ (Feb 2014)
• ‘Roots of Hope project aims to reduce northern suicides’ (May 2018)
• ‘‘We are hurting’: As Sask. First Nations grapple with suicides, feds announce $2.5M in prevention funding’ (December 2019)
• Centre for Suicide Prevention’s ‘Cross-Canada comparison statistics’ (November 2019)

FSIN

Saskatchewan First Nations Suicide Prevention Strategy (May 2018)

PROVINCIAL GOV’T

‘Pillars for Life: The Saskatchewan Suicide Prevention Plan’ released May 8, 2020 by Rural and Remote Health Minister Warren Kaeding

Mental Health and Addictions Action Plan (Gov’t of SK, 2014)

‘2020-21 Budget Strengthens Health Care in Saskatchewan’ (Gov’t of SK, June 2020)

Danielle Chartier

• MLA Saskatoon Riversdale 
• NDP mental health and addictions critic

Doyle Vermette

• Cumberland MLA who introduced Bill 613 in November 2018, reintroduced Bill 618 in November 2019
• Opposition Whip & NDP critic responsibilities for Northern SK, Saskatchewan Government Insurance, and the Saskatchewan Transportation Corporation. Previously critic for First Nations and Metis Relations

FEDERAL GOV’T

‘NDP Calls for All-Party Support for Suicide Prevention Motion M-174’ (May 2019)

‘Parliament passes Charlie Angus’s motion to establish national suicide prevention action plan’ (May 2019)

‘Trudeau announces nearly $70M over 3 years for Indigenous mental health services’ (June 2016)

First Nations Mental Wellness Continuum Framework Summary Report (December 2014)

National Aboriginal Youth Suicide Prevention Strategy Program Framework (2013)

Indigenous Service Canada’s Hope for Wellness Help Line

Jordan’s Principle (2016)

An Act respecting First Nations, Inuit and Metis children, youth and families (S.C. 2019, c.24)

‘Breaking Point: The Suicide Crisis in Indigenous Communities’ Report to the Standing Committee on Indigenous and Northern Affairs (June 2017)

INUIT TAPIRIIT KANATAMI

National Inuit Suicide Prevention Strategy (2016)