Task Group
COVID-19 VACCINE PLANNING TASK GROUP: FIRST NATIONS, INUIT AND METIS IN URBAN AND RELATED HOMELANDS
The purpose of the COVID-19 Vaccine Planning Task Group: Urban Settings and Related Homelands is to work collaboratively at F/P/T/I/L (Federal, Provincial, Territorial, Indigenous and Local) levels to share information and coordinate approaches in order to facilitate timely and culturally safe access, including the unique planning and delivery processes of COVID-19 vaccination specifically for First Nations, Inuit and Métis living in urban settings.
Task Group Documents (Click on the document to open)
Provincial Vaccination Plans
* Indigenous peoples listed as a priority group, please check link for more detail
Alberta *
Manitoba *
Ontario *
Urban Indigenous Vaccination Clinics in the news:
Pop-up vaccination clinic launches downtown to support unhoused Calgarians
Mobile vaccination clinic reaches hundreds of Indigenous Montrealers
COVID-19 vaccine clinic looks to connect Indigenous patients with their culture
Ma-Mow-We-Tak Friendship Centre to help immunize Indigenous people against COVID-19
Vaccination clinics for urban Indigenous, homeless people to open in 4 Manitoba cities
La vaccination s'ouvre aux Autochtones vivant en milieu urbain
Pop-up clinics offer Indigenous people in Ontario easier access to vaccinations
The Métis Nation of Alberta opens a vaccine clinic
Indigenous-focused, large-scale COVID-19 immunization clinic opens in Calgary
Manitoba Metis Federation plans to give COVID-19 vaccines to 100 members by Saturday
Penticton’s Ooknakane hosts first of its kind Friendship Centre vaccination clinic
Indigenous elders to be vaccinated at Wabano Centre for Aboriginal Health
Ottawa’s Akausivik Inuit Family Health Team centre has vaccinated more than 700 Ontario Inuit
North Bay Indigenous Hub administers COVID-19 vaccine
Niagara should remain vigilant for ‘a couple of months’: Hirji (Fort Erie Native Friendship Centre)