Baker Lake

Pauktuutit to explore challenges confronting Inuit women in Canada’s extractive industry

22 February 2019 Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic 0 Comments Arctic, Baker Lake, ECONOMICS, economy, Inuit Nunangat, labour, mining, resources, sexual harassment, violence, work

Canada’s national women’s organization is working to launch a new project to better understand the violence and harassment faced by

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Community in Arctic Canada holds suicide prevention meetings following deaths

23 January 201923 January 2019 Alex Brockman, CBC News 0 Comments Baker Lake, health care, healthcare, mental health, Nunavut, Suicide

Officials with Nunavut’s Health Department are in Baker Lake this week for a series of suicide prevention meetings, following three

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Mental health in Arctic Canada – Can community programs make the difference?

1 May 201726 September 2018 Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic 0 Comments Baker Lake, counselling, health, indigenous, Inuit, Mianiqsijit, Nunavut

For many northerners in Canada’s remote Arctic communities, the obstacles to receiving mental health services are multiplied by their isolation and lack

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Mental health in Canada – Can community programs in Arctic Canada make the difference?

1 May 20172 May 2017 Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic 0 Comments Baker Lake, counselling, health, indigenous, Inuit, Mianiqsijit, Nunavut

May 1-7 is Mental Health Week across Canada. It’s an annual event organized by the Canadian Mental Health Association to

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THE OBSERVER- Jimmy Kamimmalik

3 February 201728 June 2017 Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic 0 Comments artists, Baker Lake, Cape Dorset, mining, Nunavut, printmaking, prints

We take you into studio with Jimmy Kamimmalik, an artist and printmaker working in Baker Lake, a community in Canada’s eastern Arctic territory of Nunavut.