Northern Canada: Nunavut, Nunavik face major teacher shortages as school year begins
Teacher shortages are continuing across Nunavut and Nunavik for another year, with both regions continuing to hire even as schools
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Canadian, Icelandic universities team up for migration conference
Canada’s University of Manitoba and the University of Iceland’s Vigdís Finnbogadóttir Institute of Foreign Languages at will team up later
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Alaska governor cites public response in veto reversals
Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy hasn’t wavered from many of his positions since taking office. But that changed this week. Dunleavy
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School system in Canada’s Northwest Territories needs major reform, education minister says
The education system in Canada’s Northwest Territories is failing students and is in desperate need of reform, but it will
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University of Alaska: Governor halves vetoes, spreads cuts over three years
In a major reversal, Governor Mike Dunleavy announced Tuesday he’s agreed to restore roughly half of the funding he vetoed
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MLAs in Canada’s Northwest Territories expect ‘hectic’ sitting ahead of territorial election
Northwest Territories MLAs, in Northern Canada, have a jam-packed agenda as they head into their last scheduled sitting before the
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University of Alaska system to be consolidated into one accredited university
The University of Alaska Board of Regents voted 8 to 3 to move towards consolidating the entire university system to
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Saskatchewan, Canada researchers to establish Indigenous-led centre focused on HIV rates among First Nations, Inuit & Métis
The Canadian Institutes of Health Research has awarded a federal grant to First Nations researchers at Canada’s University of Saskatchewan
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Northern Canada: Leaders looking for answers to improve education in Sahtu communities
Representatives from two communities in the Sahtu region, Arctic Canada say they aren’t happy with their quality of education, and
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University of Alaska students, staff on edge due to impending budget cuts
On the day the Legislature unsuccessfully attempted to override Governor Mike Dunleavy’s line-item veto, University of Alaska Anchorage (UAA) biology
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Alaska Legislature fails to override governor’s budget vetoes
The Alaska Legislature failed to override Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s state budget vetoes on Wednesday. Without enough lawmakers present to reach
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Alaska senators worry about funding for scholarships, medical education, rural power cost equalization
State senators in Juneau, Alaska raised alarm on Tuesday about the money swept from state budget accounts into a harder-to-access
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Inuit groups in Canada to get over $161M for skills, employment training
Canada’s Crown Indigenous-Relations Minister Carolyn Bennett was in Iqaluit, Nunavut on Monday where she announced changes to the federal government’s
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Why southern Canadians should brush up on their geography of the northern territories
A large national non-profit wrote CBC North last week promoting two new historic places in the Northwest Territories. Problem is
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Alaska universities, health services hit hard by governor’s budget vetoes
Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy vetoed 182 separate line items from the state’s operating budget. During a Friday press conference, Dunleavy
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