By Moira Wyton  Local Journalism Initiative Reporter The First Nations Health Authority is hailing a new cultural safety and humility standard as key to ending widespread racism against  Indigenous people in British Columbia’s health-care system.   The new standard,  which allows for the province to accredit health-care facilities and  workers based on how safe they are for Indigenous people, is the first  of its kind in Canada.   “It’s a commitment to ensuring that  cultural safety is upheld, not just an important and lifesaving thing to  do, but because it’s the right thing to do,” said FNHA deputy chief  medical officer Dr. Nel Wieman, who co-chaired the committee that  developed the standard.   “This standard offers an opportunity for us to work together to make the system better

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