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First Nations in northwestern Canada fed up with education system, after auditor general’s report

21 June 2019 CBC News 0 Comments education, First Nations, indigenous, Yukon

First Nations leaders in Yukon, northwestern Canada, are blasting the territorial government for failing Indigenous students, and saying it’s time

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City council in Northern Canada considering path to reconciliation

18 June 2019 Gabriela Panza-Beltrandi, CBC News 0 Comments First Nations, indigenous, Northwest Territories, NWT, reconciliation, Yellowknife

A reconciliation plan for the city of Yellowknife is slowly making its way through city council. The city is getting

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Five things to know about the agreement-in-principle for the Akaitcho land claim in Northern Canada

17 June 2019 CBC News 0 Comments Dene, First Nations, indigenous, land claims, Northwest Territories, NWT

The key for Akaitcho government negotiators is settling a land-claim agreement that preserves sovereignty. For the past 19 years, Fred

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Violence against Indigenous women: paving the way forward for Canada’s Northwest Territories

13 June 2019 Randi Beers, CBC News 0 Comments colonialism, First Nations, indigenous, Indigenous women, MMIWG, National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls, Northwest Territories, NWT, police

Jane Weyallon is unequivocal in her assessment of the Canadian government’s colonial relationship with Indigenous women. The president of the

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New Canadian cancer strategy has focus on Inuit, First Nations and Métis people

13 June 2019 Marc Winkler, CBC News 0 Comments cancer, disease, First Nations, health, indigenous, Inuit, Metis

The Canadian Partnership against Cancer has released its latest 10-year strategy and it includes a special focus on Inuit, First

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Northern Canada: Akaitcho land claims & self-government process should be finalized next year, negotiator says

11 June 201911 June 2019 Gabriela Panza-Beltrandi, CBC News 0 Comments Dene, First Nations, indigenous, land claims, Northwest Territories, NWT, Yellowknife

After 19 years, the Akaitcho land claim and self-government processes may soon be finalized. According to the community negotiator for

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Dene Nation calls for action following inquiry’s report on violence against Indigenous women in Canada

10 June 2019 Avery Zingel, CBC News 0 Comments Dene, First Nations, indigenous, Indigenous women, MMIWG, National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls, Norman Yakeleya, women

Dene National Chief Norman Yakeleya wants Canadian and Indigenous governments to take swift action on the 231 calls to justice

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Canadian PM says deaths and disappearances of Indigenous women and girls amount to ‘genocide’

4 June 2019 Catharine Tunney, CBC News 0 Comments colonialism, First Nations, genocide, indigenous, Indigenous women, Inuit, Justin Trudeau, Metis, MMIWG, National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls, women

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says his government accepts that the murders and disappearances of Indigenous women and girls across

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Violence & Indigenous women in Canada: Support available for family members reading inquiry’s final report

4 June 20194 June 2019 CBC News 0 Comments First Nations, indigenous, Indigenous women, Inuit, mental health, Metis, MMIWG, National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls, women

Aftercare should not be an afterthought. That’s the message a network of support workers from across the country is sending

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Report on violence against Indigenous women a ‘wake-up call’ for Canada, says Pauktuutit president

3 June 20197 June 2019 Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic 0 Comments courts, First Nations, Inuit, Metis, MMIWG, National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls, Pauktuutit, policing

The final report on violence against Indigenous woman in Canada should serve as a wake-up call for the country, but

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Canada: Violence against Indigenous women, girls in Quebec often neglected, national inquiry says

3 June 20194 June 2019 CBC News 0 Comments First Nations, indigenous, Indigenous women, Inuit, MMIWG, National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls, quebec, women

The national inquiry into missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls has released a separate report about violence in Quebec,

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Canada’s inquiry into missing and murdered Indigenous women issues final report with sweeping calls for change

3 June 20194 June 2019 John Paul Tasker, CBC News 0 Comments First Nations, indigenous, Indigenous women, Inuit, Metis, MMIWG, National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls, women

After more than three years, dozens of community meetings and testimony from well over 2,000 Canadians, the missing and murdered

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231 ‘imperative’ changes: Calls for justice from Canada’s inquiry on missing and murdered Indigenous women

3 June 20193 June 2019 CBC News 0 Comments First Nations, indigenous, Indigenous women, Inuit, Metis, MMIWG, National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls, women

There are 231 steps that need to be taken by governments and Canadians in order to end the genocide against

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Inuit-specific mental health services among recommendations in Canadian report on violence against Indigenous women

31 May 20193 June 2019 Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic 0 Comments First Nations, indigenous, Indigenous women, Inuit, Metis, MMIWG, National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls, women

Culturally relevant policing and mental health services are among the Inuit-specific recommendations in a Canadian report on violence against Indigenous

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National inquiry calls murders and disappearances of Indigenous women a ‘Canadian genocide’

31 May 20193 June 2019 Jorge Barrera, CBC News 0 Comments First Nations, indigenous, Indigenous women, Inuit, Metis, MMIWG, National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls, women

The thousands of Indigenous women and girls who were murdered or disappeared across the country in recent decades are victims

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