By Dave Baxter  Local Journalism Initiative Reporter The College of Physicians and Surgeons of Manitoba (CPSM) has apologized for what it said was its long-standing role in contributing to anti-Indigenous racism in the local health-care system and for how that racism affected generations of Indigenous people and communities. “CPSM’s failure to regulate the medical profession’s current and past racist treatment of Indigenous peoples is a tragic part of CPSM’s 150-year history,” the CPSM said on Tuesday. ` `CPSM apologizes to First Nations, Metis and Inuit children, families, and Elders for the racism that has occurred in their medical care, whether it was in the care they received, or should have received but did not.” According to the CPSM website, since being founded in 1871, their mandate has been to “protect

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