Monday, November 2, 2026
Eleven Years
An eleven-year survival gap. A visual argument about cumulative harm, colonial institutions and accountability in Canada.
Ten things
- A separate population study published in 2025 documents Alberta Health administrative population and vital-statistics data, a status-based health-insurance identifier covering people on and off reserve, and abridged life tables using five-year age groups.
- Yellowhead counts a further six completed between 2015 and 2019 which it does not enumerate in that timeline, so no claim is made here that every health Call remains open.
- Alberta uses directly published AHS estimates for both sexes; Manitoba uses rounded report figures; British Columbia shows change over time; Saskatchewan shows crude drug-toxicity rates.
- On January 11, 2019, The Canadian Press reported that CPSS acknowledged receiving a federal letter and called further comment premature.
- The Caring Society tribunal record includes the 2016 discrimination decision and subsequent non-compliance proceedings discussed on this site through 2025.
- Completion figures and the 2081 projection are the Yellowhead Institute’s, from its 2023 status update; this page has not independently audited them.
- The seven Calls completed since Yellowhead began tracking in December 2019 are numbers 13, 15, 67, 70, 72, 80 and 94, none of which is a health Call.
- Our argument: institutions cannot fairly assign responsibility for health outcomes while overlooking who controls the resources and decisions that shape them.
- The Truth and Reconciliation Commission described a sustained government policy aimed at dismantling Indigenous governments, disregarding rights, ending treaties and assimilating Indigenous peoples out of existence as distinct societies.
- Of the seven Calls completed since their tracking began, two were satisfied by professional associations publishing reports that themselves contained recommendations calling for more action.
Five questions
Which term completes this sourced statement? “A separate population study published in 2025 documents _____ Health administrative population and vital-statistics data, a status-based health-insurance identifier covering people on and off reserve, and abridged life tables using five-year age groups.”
Which term completes this sourced statement? “Alberta uses directly published AHS estimates for both sexes; Manitoba uses rounded report figures; British Columbia shows change over time; _____ shows crude drug-toxicity rates.”
Which term completes this sourced statement? “The Caring _____ tribunal record includes the 2016 discrimination decision and subsequent non-compliance proceedings discussed on this site through 2025.”
Which term completes this sourced statement? “The seven Calls completed since Yellowhead began tracking in _____ 2019 are numbers 13, 15, 67, 70, 72, 80 and 94, none of which is a health Call.”
Which term completes this sourced statement? “The Truth and _____ Commission described a sustained government policy aimed at dismantling Indigenous governments, disregarding rights, ending treaties and assimilating Indigenous peoples out of existence as distinct societies.”