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Class action lawsuit on behalf of Nunavik crime victims gets the go-ahead

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic @arctic_eq
Posted: Thursday, December 15, 2022 at 15:05 — Last Updated: Thursday, December 15, 2022 at 15:10
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A class action lawsuit on behalf of crime victims in Nunavik, the Inuit region of northern Quebec, has got the

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Nunavut led country in violent crimes in 2021, says Statistics Canada report

Jane George, CBC News
Posted: Wednesday, August 3, 2022 at 09:39
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The territories also ranked highest in crime severity, the new report shows Nunavut has the highest rate of police-reported violent

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Police respond to rising burglaries in Swedish Lapland

Radio Sweden
Posted: Tuesday, December 28, 2021 at 10:34
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In north Lapland, people are most afraid of home burglaries so the police have set up an organization to react

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Mounties discuss committee findings on 7 sexual assault cases in Canada’s Northwest Territories

Avery Zingel, CBC News
Posted: Tuesday, April 6, 2021 at 09:43
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Reporting a sexual assault takes guts and few Northwest Territories victims ever come forward, making it all the more important

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Incident involving active shooter in Clyde River now resolved, police say

CBC News
Posted: Thursday, December 17, 2020 at 11:15 — Last Updated: Thursday, December 17, 2020 at 15:41
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Canada’s naitonal police force in the Arctic territory of Nunavut say an incident involving an active shooter in the community

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Police investigate suspicious death in Arctic Quebec community

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic @arctic_eq
Posted: Wednesday, November 4, 2020 at 15:35 — Last Updated: Tuesday, April 13, 2021 at 12:52
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Quebec provincial police are investigating the suspicious death of a woman in Salluit, a community in Nunavik, the Inuit region

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Nunavik justice issues “extremely important” to tackle, says Quebec government

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic @arctic_eq
Posted: Thursday, June 18, 2020 at 13:39 — Last Updated: Tuesday, April 13, 2021 at 12:54
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Tackling longstanding issues in the Nunavik justice system are “extremely important” and are being actively worked on by the government,

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Quebec Inuit org. calls lack of police, justice reform “ticking catastrophe in modern times”

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic @arctic_eq
Posted: Wednesday, June 17, 2020 at 17:01 — Last Updated: Tuesday, April 13, 2021 at 12:51
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Makivik Corporation, the organization that represents Inuit in the Canadian province of Quebec, is calling for an overhaul to the

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Police make raids across Montreal as part of investigation into alcohol, drug network selling into Arctic Quebec

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic @arctic_eq
Posted: Tuesday, February 18, 2020 at 11:32 — Last Updated: Tuesday, April 13, 2021 at 12:51
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More than 80 police officers, from four different police forces in the Canadian province of Quebec, took part in raids

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Russia releases Norwegian ex-border inspector in 3-way spy swap involving Lithuania

Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Friday, November 15, 2019 at 12:05 — Last Updated: Monday, November 18, 2019 at 11:53
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Ex-border inspector Frode Berg is now on his way home to Kirkenes, Arctic Norway after 23 months in FSB’s notorious

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Longread – Why a Soviet-built polar cruise vessel left Atlantic Canada as a derelict ghost ship

Randi Beers, CBC News
Posted: Wednesday, November 13, 2019 at 10:42 — Last Updated: Wednesday, November 13, 2019 at 17:11
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Glenn Mackey boarded the MV Lyubov Orlova in St. John’s Harbour in Newfoundland, Atlantic Canada, on July 2, 2010, expecting

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Man in Arctic Canada fined for unlawfully killing polar bear

Mackenzie Scott, CBC News
Posted: Thursday, November 7, 2019 at 11:50
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A man from Inuvik, in Canada’s Northwest Territories, has been fined $1,500 for killing a polar bear last year. Justin

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US Senate passes bill with funds for missing and murdered Indigenous women

Liz Ruskin, Alaska Public Media
Posted: Tuesday, November 5, 2019 at 09:06 — Last Updated: Tuesday, November 5, 2019 at 14:46
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WASHINGTON – The U.S. Senate last week agreed to spend $6.5 million to tackle the epidemic of missing and murdered

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U.S. Justice Dept. awards $42 million in tribal grants to fight crime, help victims in rural Alaska

Liz Ruskin, Alaska Public Media
Posted: Friday, October 18, 2019 at 14:51
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Speaking to the Alaska Federation of Natives convention in Fairbanks, in the state’s Interior region, Thursday, U.S. Attorney General William

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Offender in Northern Canada wins appeal, overturns banishment from his community

Beth Brown, CBC News
Posted: Thursday, October 10, 2019 at 10:35
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A Nunavut, Northern Canada man convicted of sexual assault and breaking and entering is no longer going to be banished

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