May 14, 2020

P.E.I. Native Council says members face mental health, housing and other struggles through pandemic

Author: Kerry Campbell

The Native Council of P.E.I. says its roughly 1,000 members are "double-disadvantaged" as they struggle to deal with housing, hunger and mental health issues under the COVID-19 pandemic — and the council itself struggles with limited resources to try to help them.
Wednesday, the Congress of Aboriginal Peoples (CAP) — an umbrella group encompassing the council and nine other organizations representing off-reserve Indigenous people across the country — filed an application in federal court seeking