‘Dead because she was Indigenous’: Québec coroner says Atikemekw woman a victim of systemic racism

Hospital staff assumed Joyce Echaquan was an opioid addict. She was dying of a rare heart condition

An Indigenous woman who was taunted by nursing staff as she lay dying in a Quebec hospital would probably be alive today if she were white, a coroner has concluded.

The death of Joyce Echaquan was an undeniable" example of systematic racism in the province, the Quebec coroner Gehane Kamel told reporters on Tuesday.