Nunavut led country in violent crimes in 2021, says Statistics Canada report
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
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
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
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
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
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”
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
A Nunavut, Northern Canada man convicted of sexual assault and breaking and entering is no longer going to be banished
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Violence against Indigenous women in Canada: final report altered to fix error
The MMIWG national inquiry overstated in its final report the percentage of Canadian homicide victims who are Indigenous women and
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