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Disability rates highest for Inuit outside of traditional homeland, lowest in Nunavik, says Statistics Canada study

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic
Posted: Thursday, December 12, 2019 at 17:35
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A new study from Statistics Canada looking at disability rates amongst First Nations, Métis and Inuit has found that disability

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Canada Featured • Zone 3 SOCIETY Society 

More wolves killed since new government incentives in northwest Canada

Kate Kyle, CBC News
Posted: Thursday, December 12, 2019 at 16:49 — Last Updated: Thursday, December 12, 2019 at 17:35
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Dozens of wolves were killed by hunters under a new incentive program last year. But a biologist with the territorial

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Canada Featured • Zone 2 SOCIETY Society 

Arctic Canada : airline merger creating ‘dire’ situation for northwest communities, says MLA

Sara Minogue, CBC News
Posted: Thursday, December 12, 2019 at 14:33
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The MLA for the Northwest Territories’ northernmost communities is calling on airlines in the Beaufort Delta to provide more frequent

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Canada Countries Featured • Zone 2 SOCIETY Society 

A person has died of whooping cough in Canada’s Nunavut territory, health department says

CBC News
Posted: Tuesday, December 10, 2019 at 13:38
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A person in Nunavut has died of whooping cough, the territorial government confirmed Monday morning. A spokesperson for Nunavut’s Health Department

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Canada Countries Featured • Zone 2 SOCIETY Society 

Arctic Canada: Nunavut residents get underwater airplane escape training

Jackie McKay, CBC News
Posted: Wednesday, December 4, 2019 at 10:33
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You’re upside down and underwater, strapped into a metal cage by a harness-like seatbelt and the door beside you is

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Canada Featured • Zone 3 SOCIETY Society 

Canadian Coast Guard completes 2019 Arctic operational season

Levon Sevunts, Radio Canada International
Posted: Tuesday, December 3, 2019 at 16:14 — Last Updated: Tuesday, December 3, 2019 at 16:15
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With Canada’s northernmost regions plunged into the polar night, the Canadian Coast Guard has completed its 2019 Arctic operational season,

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Canada Featured • Zone 2 SOCIETY Society 

Major Canadian northern highway project proving difficult to realize

Richard Gleeson, CBC News
Posted: Tuesday, December 3, 2019 at 10:18
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The Northwest Territories government says it is moving ahead with the Mackenzie Valley Highway project, but so far it’s a

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Canada Countries Featured • Zone 3 General SOCIETY Society 

Indigenous leader named Northerner of the Year by Canadian magazine

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic
Posted: Monday, December 2, 2019 at 15:33
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Dana Tizya-Tramm, chief of the Vuntut Gwitchin First Nation in Canada’s northwestern Arctic, has been named Notherner of the Year

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Canada Cyber Cyber-3 Featured • Zone 3 SOCIETY Society 

‘This is a crisis’: Canadian Northwest Territories survey shows worsening housing conditions

Anna Desmarais, CBC News
Posted: Friday, November 29, 2019 at 11:51 — Last Updated: Friday, November 29, 2019 at 14:07
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Housing in every community throughout the Northwest Territories is getting worse. The 2019 NWT Housing Survey says 42 per cent

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Canada Countries Featured Featured • Zone 1 General SOCIETY Society 

Number of Chinese visitors eclipses other international travellers to the Northwest Territories, Arctic Canada

Laura Busch, CBC News
Posted: Thursday, November 28, 2019 at 10:22
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The number of tourists visiting the Northwest Territories, Arctic Canada from China has eclipsed all other international visitor numbers, while

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Canada Countries General SOCIETY Society 

New pediatricians in northwestern Canada to help serve small communities

CBC News
Posted: Monday, November 25, 2019 at 16:39
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Yukon, a territory in northwestern Canada, now has three full-time pediatricians based in the territory, and that means they’ll be

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Canada Countries Featured Featured • Zone 3 General SOCIETY Society 

Greta Thunberg look-alike in Yukon gold rush photo sparks online frenzy

CBC News
Posted: Friday, November 22, 2019 at 16:23
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No, Greta Thunberg is not a time traveller. But a historic photo from the Yukon Klondike Gold Rush in northwestern

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Canada Countries Featured Featured • Zone 2 General SOCIETY Society 

New clinic at children’s hospital in Ottawa to address specific needs of Inuit patients

CBC News
Posted: Tuesday, November 19, 2019 at 10:12
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Young patients from Nunavut coming to CHEO (Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario) to be treated for complicated health issues will

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Canada Countries SOCIETY Society 

New York Times article on Inuit draws backlash for reliance on stereotypes

Kyle Muzyka, CBC News
Posted: Monday, November 18, 2019 at 14:23
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When Francine Compton saw many Inuit frustrated by a recent article in the New York Times, she didn’t want to read it.

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Canada Featured • Zone 3 SOCIETY Society 

Nunavut’s chief coroner working to recruit a coroner for every community

Beth Brown, CBC News
Posted: Monday, November 18, 2019 at 12:31
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Charlie Tautuaqjuk has been a coroner in Baker Lake for two years. He says it’s a valuable job that helps

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