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Southpoint Sun - May 27, 2015

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By Bryan Jessop A Winnipeg artist’s efforts to bring the issue of missing and murdered indigenous women to the forefront of federal government priorities have garnered local support. The Caldwell First Nation’s Red Dress Exhibit was launched Wednesday, May 20 at the 14 Orange Street main office, attended by Chatham-Kent-Leamington federal Liberal candidate Katie Omstead, Liberal Critic for Aboriginal Affairs Carolyn Bennett and numerous Caldwell representatives including chief Louise Hillier. In recognition of Winnipeg Metis artist Jamie Black’s REDress Project — an ongoing campaign to promote awareness of violence against indigenous women and girls by hanging red dresses at public facilities across the country — the Caldwell band has done the same. Caldwell Community Wellness Coordinator CarrieAnn Peters began displaying donated and purchased red dresses around the Orange Street building May 18. “Our hope is that this gets the attention of government and that it leads to inquiries,” Omstead noted. “This is a problem that has been pushed aside for far too long. We’ll keep pushing MPs and MPPs to make this happen.” The local exhibit was planned by Omstead and Peters, who have previously worked together to arrange vigils and walks addressing the same issue, including a vigil at Point Pelee From left to right, Liberal Critic for Aboriginal Affairs National Park. A steady flow of donated dress- Carolyn Bennett, federal Liberal candidate for ChaKatie Omstead and Caldwell es have been offered in support of the exhibit, tham-Kent-Leamington First Nation chief Louise Hillier stand among a porwhich is open to the public for viewing. Dona- tion of the red dresses hung outdoors around the tions included the dress worn by Miss Tomato Caldwell’s head office. (SUN Photo)

Festival 2012 winner Tara Omstead, displayed above the staircase to the building’s westernmost entrance/exit. The exhibit’s opening day was a busy one for Chief Hillier, Omstead and Bennett, who toured Caldwell-owned sites earlier in the afternoon and attended a summit on Lake Erie algae blooms organized by the Leamington District Secondary School EcoTeam and hosted by the Leamington Municipal Marina. Elsewhere, pressure on the federal government to launch a national public inquiry on the disappearance and murder of hundreds of indigenous girls and women has been applied through campaigns and projects including Walking With Our Sisters and Stolen Sisters, the latter being conducted in a partnership with Amnesty International. Bennett introduced the demand for the inquiry through the private members’ motion M-411 in October of 2013. It was added to the Order of Precedence on April 1 of this year. “There have been many different symbols used in drawing attention to these tragedies, with different communities doing different things,” Bennett explained. As part of Walking With Our Sisters, several concerned residents created beaded moccasin vamps, intentionally left separate from actual moccasins to symbolize the unfinished lives of aboriginal girls and women who’ve been murdered or gone missing in Canada. One set of vamps left an exceptional impact on Bennett — decorated with black and blue eyes, the vamps included a name tag with the words “Hello, my name is… Who Cares?” (Continued on Page 2)

EMS to use LDMH Emergency Department more often The Essex-Windsor Emergency Medical Services (EMS), Leamington District Memorial Hospital (LDMH) and Windsor Regional Hospital (WRH) announced the implementation of a health care system plan to address some of the issues facing all three organizations regarding access to timely Emergency Department services. Over the past 10 years the number of Emergency Department (ED) visits and ambulances transporting patients to the EDs in Windsor has increased. In fact, since 2001 the number of semi urgent, “less acute” patient calls to EMS has increased from just over 11,000 annually to over 20,000 annually. Current legislation requires paramedics to transport a patient to the closest most appropriate facility or, as an option, to a hospital ED as requested by the patient. Paramedics can and do treat patients at the “site” of their call and this may result in the patient deciding that they need not attend an ED. However, absent of this agreement, paramedics are mandated to transport any patient requesting to be transported to an ED. One misconception that many patients believe is that attending a hospital via EMS results in more expedient service or “jumping the queue”. Emergency Departments still triage patients arriving by ambulance, along with walk-in patients using the Canadian Triage and Acuity Scale (CTAS). By using CTAS, some patients that attend by ambulance will need

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to be placed in the waiting room, possibly with other “walk-in” patients. The CTAS levels are designed such that a Level 1 represents the patient’s threat to life or limb while Level 5 represents the least ill patient. Level 1 patients are sudden cardiac arrest, major trauma, for example, while Level 4 and 5 may be acute in presentation but are non-urgent in the aspects or treatment or assessment. With the increase in general acuity and the number of “less acute” patients (Continued on Page 2)

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