Inuit Nunangat Policy gets boost with new federal directive
Canada Announces New Directive to Support Inuit Nunangat The Canadian government introduced a Cabinet Directive on Thursday aimed at improving
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Crown-Indigenous Relations
N.W.T. MLAs get glimpse of future remediation work, and question how northerners will benefit
What will life look like in the Northwest Territories, after the mines? There are more than 500 sites in the
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Inuit Action Plan underway to implement recommendatons from landmark Canadian report on violence against Indigenous women
Pauktuutit Inuit Women of Canada, the organization that represents Inuit women in the country, and Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami, the national
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Ottawa announces compensation for students of Indian Day Schools, $200M legacy fund
Canada’s Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister Carolyn Bennett announced today that eligible Indian Day School students will be entitled to thousands of
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Trudeau’s offer of Indigenous Services Canada to Wilson-Raybould like ‘asking Nelson Mandela to administer apartheid’
The Canadian prime minister’s attempt to move Jody Wilson-Raybould to the Indigenous Services portfolio was a “deeply humiliating” proposal and
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Cabinet shuffle offers ‘better setup’ for Canada’s North, says Northern MP
The federal government’s recent cabinet shuffle is drawing praise from Northwest Territories MP Michael McLeod, who says he expects the
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