An open door to reconciliation: inside Ottawa’s new Indigenous Peoples building
Inside the ornate former U.S. embassy across from the Parliament Buildings in Ottawa, a set of plain tools sits in
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Atlantic Canada: Inuit helping Innu community deal with suicide crisis
As support workers continue around-the-clock support to help people in Sheshatshiu deal with the community’s suicide crisis, the effort has
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Miles Canyon in Canada’s Yukon territory needs name change, says MLA
It’s one of Whitehorse’s best known and most admired local landmarks. The same, however, can’t be said for its namesake
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Northern Canada: We’ve spelled this Indigenous community’s name wrong for decades
The Yellowknives Dene First Nation recently emailed a notice asking certain news organizations to begin — please — to correctly spell “Dettah,”
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Deline Indigenous gov excluded from meeting with new MLAs in Canada’s Northwest Territories
Northwest Territories MLAs in the newly-minted 19th Legislative Assembly have yet to govern a day, and leadership in the community
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First Nation demands northern gov enforce benefits agreement for oil & gas work
The Acho Dene Koe First Nation says an oil and gas company that has been licensed to do work on
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Missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls: What Canada’s parties are promising
Little time has been spent on the issue of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls so far in Canada’s
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Climate kicks off Canada’s French-language leaders’ debate, but no mention of Inuit or Arctic
Canada’s federal leaders came out swinging on climate during Thursday’s French-language debate, as global warming increasingly emerges as a dominant
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Ottawa tells court First Nation child welfare compensation order could cost $8 billion
A senior federal official says a human rights tribunal ruling ordering Ottawa to compensate First Nation children apprehended through the
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Canadian Liberal leader makes climate pitch to northerners on Arctic campaign stop
Video: Canadian Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau addresses reporters in Canada’s eastern Arctic territory of Nunavut on Tuesday. The day after
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Atlantic Canada: Innu Nation asks court to quash NunatuKavut agreement with Ottawa
The Innu Nation, in Atlantic Canada, is again challenging the Indigenous status of the NunatuKavut Community Council, this time in
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Leaders take on climate, Indigenous issues, but Arctic absent from Canadian election debate
The leaders of Canada’s six federal parties took to the debate stage in Gatineau, Quebec Monday night, facing off over
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Taxing carbon in Canada’s diesel-dependent North
People living off-grid in the Northwest Territories witness climate change every day, but in remote communities where power and heat
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Ottawa seeks judicial review in decision to compensate First Nations kids
Canada’s Liberal government led by Justin Trudeau is challenging a landmark human rights ruling to compensate apprehended First Nations children
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Inuit focus in violence inquiry important for Arctic Canada, conference hears
Canada’s landmark inquiry into violence against Indigenous women was a wake-up call for the nation and continues to have important
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