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* Featured * Canada Countries Featured • Zone 3 General News Politics Politics (Canada) 

‘Indian boarding home’ survivors in the North eligible to receive thousands of dollars in compensation

CBC News
Posted: Monday, January 9, 2023 at 11:00 — Last Updated: Monday, January 9, 2023 at 14:17
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Indigenous northerners who were housed in private boarding homes to attend public schools in the latter half of the 20th

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* Featured * Denmark/Greenland Featured • Zone 3 General News Society Society (Denmark/Greenland) 

Failed Danish social experiment haunts Greenlandic survivors taken from families 70 years ago

CBC Radio
Posted: Tuesday, February 15, 2022 at 11:51
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WARNING: This story contains distressing details. Helene Thiesen says she froze when it came time to wave goodbye to her

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Dene national chief says Canada’s Northwest Territories should create own school curriculum

Hannah Paulson, CBC
Posted: Tuesday, April 6, 2021 at 13:28
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‘It’s time that we step up and take ownership of our education,’ says Norman Yakeleya Alberta’s decision to renew its

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UK variant cases prompt Iceland to tighten up border measures and domestic restrictions

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic @arctic_eq
Posted: Wednesday, March 24, 2021 at 16:01
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Iceland is putting new COVID-19 rules in place at the border after Iceland’s chief epidemiologist says new COVID-19 domestic waves

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U.S. investigates Alaska’s psychiatric treatment of children

The Associated Press
Posted: Friday, January 29, 2021 at 12:30
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska — The U.S. Department of Justice has opened an investigation into whether the state of Alaska unnecessarily institutionalizes

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Canada General RCI Society Society (Canada) 

Campaign launched in northwestern Canada to address impact of COVID-19 on families

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic @arctic_eq
Posted: Friday, July 31, 2020 at 15:58
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The government of Canada’s northwestern Yukon territory, along with the Council of Yukon First Nations (CYFN), have launched a campaign

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Canada’s Arctic territory releases its school reopening plan

CBC News
Posted: Friday, July 24, 2020 at 13:55
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If Nunavut continues to have no cases of COVID-19, schools are set to open with no physical distancing requirements this upcoming school

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Finland Society Society (Finland) 

Finland has Nordics’ oldest first-time mothers

Yle News
Posted: Wednesday, May 6, 2020 at 11:51
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The average age of women giving birth is higher in Finland than any of the other Nordic countries, statistics from

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Canada RCI Society Society (Canada) 

Publisher in Arctic Canada putting Inuit-language books online amidst COVID-19 closures

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic @arctic_eq
Posted: Thursday, March 26, 2020 at 10:19
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A publisher, in partnership with the organization that represents Inuit in Canada’s eastern Arctic territory of Nunavut, are making Inuit-language

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Canada RCI Society Society (Canada) 

Foster coalition reports major issues in Canadian Arctic territory child-care services

John Last, CBC North
Posted: Friday, January 17, 2020 at 11:34
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Child protection workers in the N.W.T. withheld important documents from foster families, “lied” about the behavioural issues of children in

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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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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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General Politics Politics (Russia) Russia 

How Murmansk government plans to attract newcomers and reverse regional decline

Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Monday, October 21, 2019 at 10:11 — Last Updated: Monday, October 21, 2019 at 10:23
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“We need 200,000 newcomers to compensate for natural population decline in the region over the coming decade,” she says. Depopulation

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Canada General Politics Politics (Canada) 

Pilot project in Nunatsiavut, Atlantic Canada aims to keep Inuit foster children in the region

CBC News
Posted: Monday, October 14, 2019 at 13:00
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The Nunatsiavut government, the regional government which represents the Inuit of northern Labrador in Atlantic Canada, is testing a pilot

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Canada General Politics Politics (Canada) 

Ottawa tells court First Nation child welfare compensation order could cost $8 billion

Jorge Barrera, CBC News
Posted: Thursday, October 10, 2019 at 10:59 — Last Updated: Thursday, October 10, 2019 at 16:29
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A senior federal official says a human rights tribunal ruling ordering Ottawa to compensate First Nation children apprehended through the

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