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Nunavut signs devolution agreement-in-principle with Canada, Inuit organization

16 August 2019 Sara Frizzell, CBC News 0 Comments devolution, Inuit, legislation, Nunavut, Nunavut Tunngavik

Nunavut has reached an agreement-in-principle on devolution with the government of Canada and the territorial Inuit organization. Canada’s Crown-Indigenous Relations

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Police continue investigation into fibre line cut in Canada’s Northwest Territories

15 August 201915 August 2019 Laura Busch, CBC News 0 Comments crime, fibre optics, Internet, Northwest Territories, Northwestel, NWT, telecommunications

RCMP, Canada’s federal police, are asking for the public’s help as they investigate two incidents of suspected vandalism that disrupted

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Canada’s federal police launches recruitment program aimed at Nunavut Inuit

15 August 2019 CBC News 0 Comments indigenous, Inuit, Nunavut, police, RCMP

RCMP’s V Division wants Nunavut Inuit to join the police force. The Mounties, Canada’s federal police, have partnered with Makigiaqta

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MLAs in Canada’s Northwest Territories approve updates to decades-old oil ans gas laws

15 August 201915 August 2019 Alex Brockman, CBC News 0 Comments energy, gas, legislation, Northwest Territories, NWT, oil

MLAs in the Northwest Territories, in Northern Canada, have passed two pieces of oil and gas legislation, replacing decades-old legislation.

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School system in Canada’s Northwest Territories needs major reform, education minister says

14 August 2019 Alex Brockman, CBC News 0 Comments Caroline Cochrane, education, Northwest Territories, NWT

The education system in Canada’s Northwest Territories is failing students and is in desperate need of reform, but it will

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Ottawa apologizes to Inuit of Nunavut’s Baffin Island for sled dog killings, forced relocations

14 August 201916 August 2019 Sara Frizzell, CBC News 0 Comments Baffin Island, Carolyn Bennett, colonialism, history, indigenous, Inuit, Iqaluit, Nunavut, reconciliation

Canadian Minister of Crown-Indigenous Relations Carolyn Bennett gave wide-ranging apology to Inuit of Baffin Island in Iqaluit, in Canada’s eastern

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All-season road project linking Northwest Territories and Nunavut in Northern Canada gets first major funding

14 August 201914 August 2019 CBC News 1 Comment mining, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, NWT, roads, transport

The Canadian and N.W.T. governments announced $40 million in funding Wednesday toward pre-construction work on an all-season road that would

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Canada’s Northwest Territories to overhaul smoking laws, raise minimum age to buy tobacco

13 August 201914 August 2019 Alex Brockman, CBC News 0 Comments drugs, health, legislation, Northwest Territories, NWT, smoking, youth

The Northwest Territories, in Northern Canada, is set to raise minimum age to buy tobacco to 19 as part of

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MLAs in Canada’s Northwest Territories expect ‘hectic’ sitting ahead of territorial election

12 August 2019 Sidney Cohen, CBC News 0 Comments carbon tax, education, elections, legislation, mining, Northwest Territories, NWT

Northwest Territories MLAs, in Northern Canada, have a jam-packed agenda as they head into their last scheduled sitting before the

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Reservoir impoundment puts Atlantic Inuit culture at the “point of no return,” says Indigenous leader

12 August 201912 August 2019 Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic 0 Comments country food, Dwight Ball, hydroelectric, indigenous, Johannes Lampe, Newfoundland and Labrador, Nunatsiavut, NunatuKavut Community Council

The president of Nunatsiavut, the Inuit region of the Atlantic Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador, says the beginning of

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Canadian gov grants $1M to promote women in northern politics

8 August 20198 August 2019 CBC News 0 Comments Northwest Territories, Nunavut, NWT, women, Yellowknife

The governments of the Northwest Territories and Nunavut, in Northern Canada, will receive more than $1 million from the federal

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Canadian elections: Muskrat Falls inuk protester Beatrice Hunter to seek centre-left NDP nomination for Labrador

6 August 2019 CBC News 0 Comments elections, indigenous, Inuit, Labrador, Muskrat Falls, NDP

Beatrice Hunter, who was jailed for 10 days for refusing to promise to stay away from the Muskrat Falls construction

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Fishers in Canada’s Northwest Territories complain of excessive government control

6 August 2019 Richard Gleeson, CBC News 0 Comments fish, fisheries, Northwest Territories, NWT

Though a new fish processing plant is being built in Hay River, N.W.T., there’s a growing need to rebuild relations

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Megan Pizzo-Lyall announced as Liberal candidate for Nunavut in upcoming Canadian election

2 August 2019 CBC News 0 Comments Conservative Party, elections, Leona Aglukkaq, Liberal Party, Megan Pizzo-Lyall, Nunavut

Megan Pizzo-Lyall will run in the 2019 federal election under the Liberal party banner, she announced Thursday night in Iqaluit

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Justin Trudeau rehashes old federal funding in housing announcement for Nunavut territory

2 August 20192 August 2019 Sara Frizzell, CBC News 0 Comments housing, Inuit, Iqaluit, Joe Savikataaq, Justin Trudeau, Nunavut

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau rehashed the existing federal funding streams for housing in Nunavut in an announcement Friday morning in

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