Northern Canada: Nunavut, Nunavik face major teacher shortages as school year begins
Teacher shortages are continuing across Nunavut and Nunavik for another year, with both regions continuing to hire even as schools
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Society
Young Nunavik leaders bring stories of hope, loss to youth forum in southern Quebec
Victoria Tarqiapik went to Sherbrooke, southeastern Quebec, with a message: something needs to be done to fix the suicide crisis
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New addictions centre in Northern Quebec to focus on treating whole family
The Isuarsivik Regional Recovery Centre is breaking ground on a new addictions treatment centre in Nunavik this month. The official
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Design contract awarded for long-term care facilities in Nunavut, Northern Canada
Nunavut is moving closer to getting 156 new long-term care beds in the territory. The government of Nunavut awarded the
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Northern Canada remembers René Fumoleau’s love and dedication to the Dene
Antoine Mountain can still remember René Fumoleau peering over his shoulder while he typed up the rough draft of one
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Judge ignored Indigenous sentencing report while giving Inuk man open-ended sentence, appeals court rules
A trial judge unfairly ignored an Inuk man’s abusive and violent upbringing when slapping him with an indeterminate prison sentence
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Two dead in plane crash in Yukon, northwestern Canada
Two people who died in a plane crash in the Yukon on Tuesday have been identified. Shawn Thomas Kitchen, 24,
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Nursing shortage at obstetrics unit in Northern Canadian city leads to workplace complaint, appeal
The manager of approximately 90 nurses at Stanton Territorial Hospital in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories is appealing a conduct committee’s decision
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Camp in Nunavut, Arctic Canada helping teens make new connections and gain new skills
A summer camp aimed at helping young people, including some considered at-risk, in Cambridge Bay, Nunavut, is helping them make
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Canada’s northwestern territory to be Alaska’s new gateway to fast broadband
Northwestel is building a new fibre optic line from Haines Junction to Beaver Creek, in Canada’s Yukon territory. It should
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Help line issues in Canada’s Northwest Territories raising concerns
Northwest Territories residents are flagging issues with a territorial help line meant to aid people in crisis. Several people, who
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Canadian gov directs $1.8M to legal support for Nunavut’s women and children
The federal government gave three projects in Nunavut $1.8 million to educate residents on the legal protections that exist for
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Arctic Canada: Hockey players ‘bummed’ Team North may not compete at next Indigenous tournament
Athletes with Team North, in Arctic Canada are shocked and disappointed that they may not get a chance to play
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Atlantic Canada: Dene elders visit Nain to teach traditional moosehide techniques to Inuit
It’s never too late to make new traditions, as the Inuit people of northern Labrador, Atlantic Canada are proving this
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Inuit describe ‘bittersweet’ experience at burial sites of lost loved ones in Southern Canada
Inuit families travel to Southern Canada to discover their relatives are in unmarked graves. For Simon Nattaq, it was a
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