Monument to residential school survivors, victims to be built on Parliament Hill
By Liam Fox · The Canadian Press Governor General says monument is a ‘significant’ step toward reconciliation A survivor-led steering committee announced
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Changes cut wait times for mental health counselling by 79 per cent in N.W.T.
By Emily Blake · The Canadian Press ‘This seems to have been the change we needed,’ says Health Minister Julie Green The Northwest
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Auditor general issues ‘urgent call for action’ to protect Nunavut children and youth
By Emily Blake · The Canadian Press Canada’s auditor general says early findings in a review of child and family services in
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COVID-19 pandemic stalled progress on eliminating tuberculosis among Inuit: officials
By Emily Blake Plan to eliminate TB by 2030 still in place Nunavut’s health minister says the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted
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N.W.T. gov’t spent $716,000 to address November cybersecurity breach
Gov’t releasing few details about cyberattack The Northwest Territories government says it spent $716,000 to address a cyberattack in November.
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Man converts Tesla into film studio for journey to recount love story in the North
A man making a film based on his experiences living in Northern Canada in the early 1970s has found an
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National Inuit organization seeking $1.6B for school food program
A national Inuit organization is calling for about $1.6 billion in federal funding over 15 years to set up a
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Defence chief wanted CF-18s to destroy object over Yukon, but fighters were delayed
By Lee Berthiaume · The Canadian Press Canadian aircraft were still minutes away when the F-22 fired its missile, Wayne Eyre said
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Int’l arctic cooperation needs to continue despite rupture with Russia: Canada’s GG
By Dylan Robertson, The Canadian Press Governor-General Mary Simon says Canada needs to find a way to continue cross-polar collaboration
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Quebec Inuit jailed 15 times more than provincial incarceration average
By Jacob Serebrin · The Canadian Press 617 Inuit were jailed from March 2021 to March 2022 Osman Ilgun was arrested in
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Nunavut projects operating deficit for the 2023-2024 fiscal year
Nunavut’s finance minister tabled the territory’s budget for the 2023-2024 fiscal year on Thursday, pledging it will ensure a bright
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Canadian military says it has tracked, stopped China surveillance in Arctic waters
The Department of National Defence and Canadian Armed Forces say they’re aware of recent efforts by China to conduct surveillance
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N.W.T. piloting new northern studies course for Grade 12 students
The Northwest Territories has begun piloting a new northern studies course for Grade 12 students with an emphasis on reconciliation.
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Inuit, environmental groups call for stronger measures to reduce underwater noise
Hunters from Pond Inlet, Nunavut. — known as Mittimatalik in Inuktitut — have said they’re seeing fewer narwhal in areas
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‘Beside myself’: Renters struggle to find affordable housing in the North
By Emily Blake · The Canadian Press Aurora Rose Gellenbeck has been living out of a hotel in Yellowknife for the past
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