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Record number of worker deaths across northern Canada in 2021

CBC News
Posted: Monday, April 25, 2022 at 09:53
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When news broke of Markus Dyck’s death, it rocked not only the small Nunavut community where he lived but the

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Residents in Canada’s Northwest Territories welcome highway project, but concerned over social impacts

Natalie Pressman, CBC News @natpressman
Posted: Wednesday, April 20, 2022 at 08:52
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The $700-million highway project is a two-lane gravel road that would connect Wrigley to Norman Wells The Mackenzie Valley Highway

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Cambridge Bay’s 1st transition home for women set to open soon in Eastern Canadian Arctic

Amy Tucker, CBC
Posted: Wednesday, April 13, 2022 at 17:40
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The Kitikmeot Friendship Society announced its latest pilot project — a transitional home for women in Cambridge Bay, Nunavut. It’s

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Government-set fuel prices up in some northern Canadian communities

Avery Zingel, CBC News
Posted: Friday, April 8, 2022 at 16:36
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Fuel prices in N.W.T. communities that don’t have privately-owned gas stations went up on April 4, for the first time

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Inuvik, Canada, braces for surge in tourism

CBC News
Posted: Wednesday, April 6, 2022 at 11:45 — Last Updated: Thursday, April 7, 2022 at 09:08
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Tourism officials and operators in Inuvik, N.W.T., are ramping up for an expected surge in bookings this summer. “It’s looking good

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Canadian Inuit and Métis leaders met cardinals, Vatican officials to pursue justice

Olivia Stefanovich, CBC News
Posted: Monday, April 4, 2022 at 12:19
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WARNING: This story contains distressing details. Métis and Inuit leaders, who met the Pope at the Vatican last week, return

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Pope Francis apologizes to Canadian Indigenous delegates for ‘deplorable’ abuses at residential schools

Olivia Stefanovich, CBC News
Posted: Friday, April 1, 2022 at 10:00
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Indigenous delegates reflect on Pope Francis’s apology for the conduct of some members of the Roman Catholic Church in Canada’s

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An orange’s journey from the orchard to the Arctic highlights food insecurity in the North

CBC News
Posted: Wednesday, March 16, 2022 at 15:22 — Last Updated: Wednesday, March 16, 2022 at 15:58
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As a child, Ruth Wright loved oranges so much that she’d trade candy for them — a treat she rarely

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International Women’s Day time to recognize contributions at the community level, says Pauktuutit

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic @arctic_eq
Posted: Tuesday, March 8, 2022 at 15:56 — Last Updated: Tuesday, March 8, 2022 at 16:04
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Inuit women make contributions across Canada every day, and International Women’s Day is an important moment to recognize them, says

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Project in Nunavik, Canada recipient of $1-million Arctic Inspiration Prize

Eye on the Arctic
Posted: Monday, March 7, 2022 at 15:00
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A project based in Nunavik, Quebec that will address substance abuse issues through cultural activities that affirm Inuit identity and

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Justice system in northern Quebec straining at the seams and devastating victims, say Crown prosecutors

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic @arctic_eq
Posted: Tuesday, March 1, 2022 at 11:45
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The justice system in northern Quebec is straining at the seams, struggling to retrain Crown attorneys and betraying victims, says

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MLA in Canada’s Northwest Territories calls on government to establish regional addiction treatment centres

Luke Caroll, CBC News
Posted: Monday, February 28, 2022 at 16:22
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Rocky Simpson says Indigenous community supports establishing proper cultural programming closer to home A Hay River MLA is calling on

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Yukon to lift ‘nearly all’ COVID-19 restrictions next week

CBC News
Posted: Friday, February 25, 2022 at 10:59
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‘We’re in a place now where we’ve managed to weather a storm,’ said Premier Sandy Silver Yukon will lift “nearly all”

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Is Canada’s Northwest Territories in a mental health crisis? MLA, health minister at odds over the answer

Sidney Cohen, CBC News
Posted: Friday, February 25, 2022 at 09:03 — Last Updated: Friday, February 25, 2022 at 09:07
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Great Slave MLA says territory is at a critical point; Health Minister says it’s nothing N.W.T. can’t handle Warning: This

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Nunavik’s courts are struggling to deliver justice to Inuit population

Daniel Leblanc, Radio-Canada @danlebla
Posted: Thursday, February 24, 2022 at 15:46
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1 in 6 adults in Nunavik is brought in front of the justice system each year, prompting calls for reform

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