Traditional healing is threatened -- Elders.

The article focuses on the threat to traditional healing in Canada. Ecuadorian healers Juan and Edgar Uyunkar were sentenced by Justice Gerald Michel for charges that originated from the death of a woman who was taking part in a healing ceremony conducted by them. Justice Michel's comments in his ruling do not directly address the status of the practice of Indigenous or traditional medicine, said James Lamouche, a policy analyst with the National Aboriginal Health Organization (NAHO). NAHO wants the issue discussed, he added, because many Aboriginal Elders worry that governments could try to regulate healing and because the traditional knowledge involved in the practice must be protected.