Not Your Redmen solidarity action by Montreal Canadiens' "Hero of the Game" (Dec 1, 2018)
Channel: LaSanté PourTLM
Date: 2018-12-10

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On Saturday, December 1, 2018, the Montreal Canadiens recognized the #aHand2Hold campaign by naming pediatric emergency physician and social-justice activist Samir Shaheen-Hussain as their "Hero of the Game" during the first period of the game against the New York Rangers. 
The campaign, launched in January 2018, put an end to the decades-old governmental practice of systematically preventing caregivers from accompanying their sick and injured children requiring medevac airlifts from remote areas in the province of Quebec. Hundreds of families were affected by this practice every year, but Indigenous children were disproportionately impacted, particularly Inuit kids living in the region of Nunavik.
During the public acknowledgement as "Hero of the Game" in front of over 21,000 people at the Bell Center, Samir held a poster in support of the Indigenous-led #NotYourRedmen campaign, which is calling for McGill University to #ChangeTheName of its men's varsity teams, the Redmen. 

To learn more about the successful #aHand2Hold campaign:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/commentisfree/2018/may/17/separating-sick-inuit-kids-from-their-parents-is-medical-colonialism-all-over-again

To support the #ChangeTheName petition, sign here:
https://www.change.org/p/mcgill-university-change-the-redmen-name