{"id":252352,"date":"2025-10-31T13:15:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T13:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/252352\/"},"modified":"2025-10-31T13:15:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T13:15:12","slug":"first-light-pleased-with-appointment-of-lela-evans-as-health-and-indigenous-relations-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/252352\/","title":{"rendered":"First Light Pleased with Appointment of Lela Evans as Health and Indigenous Relations Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/first-light-logo.png\" class=\"header-image\" alt=\"First Light Pleased with Appointment of Lela Evans as Health and Indigenous Relations Minister\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">First Light Logo (Facebook)<\/p>\n<p>First Light is welcoming the appointment of Lela Evans as the minister of both health and community services and Indigenous relations and reconciliation.<\/p>\n<p>The organization says Premier Tony Wakeham\u2019s decision to have Evans lead both portfolios represents a \u201clong -overdue recognition that Indigenous health  equity must be a provincial priority.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>They call Evans\u2019 dual appointment  a \u201crare opportunity to bridge health policy with action on reconciliation,\u201d and that it signals an understanding that better outcomes can come from a \u201cfundamental shift toward Indigenous-led models of care that are culturally safe, trauma-informed, and community-grounded.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>First Light says that approach has proven to be successful in other parts of the country and is \u201cessential\u201d to relieving the strain on the system. <\/p>\n<p> The organization encouraged by what they call government\u2019s \u201capparent willingness to make Indigenous health a matter of shared responsibility across portfolios,\u201d arguing that the province could become a \u201cnational leader in advancing equitable, rights-based healthcare for all.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; First Light Logo (Facebook) First Light is welcoming the appointment of Lela Evans as the minister of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":252353,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[49,48,84,392],"class_list":{"0":"post-252352","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-health","11":"tag-healthcare"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252352\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/252353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}