Hospital asks forgiveness after Indigenous smudging ceremony forced outside into -20 C cold

The Ottawa Hospital has asked for “understanding and forgiveness” after a counsellor was forced to wheel an Indigenous patient outside in Saturday’s bitter cold to perform a smudge ceremony when staff mistakenly told them the ritual couldn’t be performed on hospital property.
“What happened in this case was not right, and does not reflect our values or our smudging procedure,” the hospital said in a emailed statement Wednesday. “We are determined to work