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Child and family health-care centre expands to better serve Cree and Inuit in northern Quebec

CBC News
Posted: Monday, February 17, 2025 at 15:27
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By Vanna Blacksmith A child and family health-care facility in Quebec’s far north opened the doors of a new building

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Featured • Zone 1 Society Society (Canada) 

Teacher resignations in Naujaat, Nunavut, leaving vacancies at high school, raising concerns

CBC News
Posted: Monday, February 17, 2025 at 10:32
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By Emma Tranter A number of teachers have resigned in Naujaat, Nunavut, leaving half of the positions at the community’s

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Featured • Zone 1 Society Society (Canada) 

Changes to Inuit child funding program putting families at risk: health-care workers

The Canadian Press
Posted: Friday, February 14, 2025 at 13:18
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Health-care workers in Nunavut say changes to a federal funding program for Inuit children are forcing some pregnant women to

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* Featured * Canada Countries Featured • Zone 1 General Politics Politics (Canada) 

Yukon’s nominee allocation cut by half, territory delays application process

CBC News
Posted: Wednesday, January 22, 2025 at 13:13 — Last Updated: Wednesday, January 22, 2025 at 14:04
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By Gabrielle Plonka Allocation in 2024 was 430 people; this year, it’s 215 The Yukon’s allocation of nominees under the

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* Featured * Canada Countries Featured • Zone 1 General Society Society (Canada) 

Former priest expected to plead guilty to sexual assault against Nunavut children

CBC News
Posted: Tuesday, January 21, 2025 at 14:27
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By Emma Tranter  Hearings scheduled in Iqaluit this week now adjourned to Thursday A former Catholic priest charged with eight

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Featured • Zone 1 Society Society (Canada) 

Watson Lake, Yukon, residents take to the streets to sing holiday classics

Chris MacIntyre, CBC News
Posted: Wednesday, December 25, 2024 at 15:52
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Nothing says it’s the holiday season more than a group of carollers and in Watson Lake, Yukon, some residents fully

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Featured • Zone 1 Society Society (Canada) 

How do reindeer fly? How does Santa deliver gifts? NORAD answers kids’ Christmas questions

CBC News
Posted: Tuesday, December 24, 2024 at 14:00
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He’s not deterred by wind, or snow, or rain, and he doesn’t file a flight plan, but that doesn’t mean

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* Featured * Environment Environment (USA) Featured • Zone 1 General USA 

A former park ranger’s new book documents decades of climate change in Arctic Alaska

Wesley Early, Alaska Public Media
Posted: Friday, December 20, 2024 at 15:44
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The Arctic is one of the areas most visibly impacted by human-caused climate change, with some areas becoming almost unrecognizable

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Environment Environment (Canada) Featured • Zone 1 

Yukon court hears dispute over proposed exploration project in Peel watershed

Jackie Hong, CBC News @xjackiehong
Posted: Thursday, November 28, 2024 at 16:28
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A proposed mining exploration project in the Yukon’s Peel watershed is at the centre of a court battle this week,

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* Featured * Featured • Zone 1 General Politics Politics (USA) USA 

Harry S. Truman carrier strike group on exercise inside the Arctic Circle

Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Tuesday, November 12, 2024 at 14:32
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The giant U.S. Navy carrier is currently sailing Vestfjorden near the Lofoten archipelago, training with the Norwegian Air Force.  “It

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* Featured * Featured • Zone 1 General Politics Politics (USA) USA 

Apology long overdue for U.S. Indian boarding schools, says former student

CBC News
Posted: Monday, October 28, 2024 at 11:43
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By Brett Forester  ‘It’s a start,’ says 74-year-old Navajo Nation member Rosie Yellowhair WARNING: This story contains details of experiences

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* Featured * Canada Countries Environment Environment (Canada) Featured • Zone 1 General News 

N.W.T. communities learning to adapt as heat waves become more common

Sarah Krymalowski, CBC News @sarkrymalowski
Posted: Monday, August 26, 2024 at 13:58
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One mayor says he brought an electric fan with him out on the land for the first time This summer,

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* Featured * Canada Countries Featured • Zone 1 General News Society Society (Canada) 

50-plus people sleeping outside in Yellowknife as winter approaches, advocates say

Sarah Krymalowski, CBC News @sarkrymalowski
Posted: Monday, August 19, 2024 at 11:56
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Meetings between NGOs, gov’ts have yielded no solutions so far, says Salvation Army director A tent encampment set up last

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Featured • Zone 1 Society Society (Denmark/Greenland) 

Air Greenland’s international flights out of Nuuk suspended, leaving some Nunavut passengers stranded

CBC News
Posted: Thursday, August 15, 2024 at 15:43
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Air Greenland’s international flights in and out of Nuuk, Greenland, are temporarily suspended, leaving some people from Nunavut stranded. Air

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* Featured * Featured • Zone 1 Finland General Politics Politics (Finland) 

Finland mulls an end to Barents cooperation

The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Friday, July 26, 2024 at 13:45 — Last Updated: Friday, July 26, 2024 at 13:46
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By Hannah Thule, Thomas Nilsen “The Finnish Ministry of Foreign Affairs is gradually disengaging from Barents cooperation,” says Elina Valtonen

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Wide shot of the Centennial Flame with the Parliament building behind
The Parliament of Canada is the federal legislature of Canada, seated at Parliament Hill in Ottawa, and is composed of three parts: the Monarch, the Senate, and the House of Commons. Photo: La Presse canadienne / Adrian Wyld

Inuit push for land protection with focus on social economy

In Taloyoak, Nunavut, the northernmost hamlet on mainland Canada, Inuit are working to conserve their territory and set up a community-driven, land-based economy. Photo : Eilís Quinn

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