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Many regions in Sweden struggling to cover hospital jobs over the summer

Radio Sweden
Posted: Thursday, May 4, 2023 at 08:53
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Many regional healthcare authorities say they are struggling to recruit enough nurses and other workers to cover the summer months,

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N.W.T., Nunavut premiers say they need time to digest federal offer on health care funding

CBC News
Posted: Wednesday, February 8, 2023 at 09:50
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The offer is on the table, and N.W.T. Premier Caroline Cochrane says now premiers will need time to digest the federal

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* Featured * Canada Countries Featured • Zone 3 General News Society Society (Canada) 

Day after nurse sit-in in western Nunavik, union denounces employer actions

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic @arctic_eq
Posted: Friday, January 20, 2023 at 15:36 — Last Updated: Monday, January 23, 2023 at 08:54
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The day after a sit-in by nurses in the western part of northern Quebec, their union is denouncing the employer

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* Featured * Canada Featured • Zone 3 General News Society Society (Canada) 

For Nunavik Inuit, care closer to home could cut down on stressful medical travel

CBC News
Posted: Tuesday, December 20, 2022 at 11:36
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By Leah Hendry, Benjamin Shingler · CBC News · Plans for new hospital could reduce the number of patients forced to travel south If

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* Featured * Countries Featured • Zone 3 General Society Society (Canada) 

N.W.T. no longer offering rheumatology services, patients must travel to Edmonton

CBC News
Posted: Wednesday, December 14, 2022 at 09:21
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Local services ‘have become increasingly difficult to organize,’ says spokesperson for health authority People in the N.W.T. who live with

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* Featured * Countries Featured • Zone 2 General Society Society (Canada) 

Some Nunavut health centres could close for weeks because of staffing, gov’t says

CBC News
Posted: Monday, December 5, 2022 at 08:49
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Health department warns of more closures in several communities this winter The Nunavut government is warning of possible health centre

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* Featured * Canada Countries Featured • Zone 3 General News Society Society (Canada) 

Nunavik: Demands for health network to be put under trusteeship

Julie Marceau, Radio-Canada @julie_marceau
Posted: Thursday, November 17, 2022 at 18:23 — Last Updated: Monday, November 21, 2022 at 08:24
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“We’re not sinking: we’re sunk.” A worker shortage, coupled with poor management of the Nunavik health care system, is creating

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Canada’s PM says COVID-19 pandemic amplified housing, connectivity gaps in territories

CBC News
Posted: Thursday, October 15, 2020 at 12:54
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Trudeau says the pandemic has exposed ‘the depths’ of issues faced by northerners In an exclusive interview with CBC North’s The

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Canada General RCI Society Society (Canada) 

Inuit org expresses solidarity with First Nations after Indigenous woman taunted before death in Quebec hospital

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic @arctic_eq
Posted: Friday, October 2, 2020 at 14:56
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Makivik Corporation, the Inuit land claims organization in Arctic Quebec, says it condemns the treatment of Joyce Echaquan, 37, an

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Canada General RCI Society Society (Canada) 

Harmonized data could help understanding of COVID-19 pandemic in North: Arctic Council briefing doc

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic @arctic_eq
Posted: Thursday, July 23, 2020 at 09:12
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Harmonized data and circumpolar oriented statistics would contribute to better understanding the COVID-19 pandemic in the North, says a briefing

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Canada RCI Society Society (Canada) 

Meet 3 Indigenous health-care workers helping keep Canadian Northern communities safe

Rhiannon Johnson, CBC News
Posted: Tuesday, June 30, 2020 at 12:21
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Through the month of June CBC Indigenous has been sharing stories from Indigenous health-care workers across the country about their

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Canada General Society Society (Canada) 

New pediatricians in northwestern Canada to help serve small communities

CBC News
Posted: Monday, November 25, 2019 at 16:39
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Yukon, a territory in northwestern Canada, now has three full-time pediatricians based in the territory, and that means they’ll be

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Canada General Society Society (Canada) 

New clinic at children’s hospital in Ottawa to address specific needs of Inuit patients

CBC News
Posted: Tuesday, November 19, 2019 at 10:12
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Young patients from Nunavut coming to CHEO (Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario) to be treated for complicated health issues will

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Canada General Politics Politics (Canada) 

Mother from Arctic Canada wants investigation after medical travel debacle

Kate Kyle, CBC News
Posted: Thursday, October 24, 2019 at 10:08
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A mother from Cambridge Bay, Nunavut, in Arctic Canada, says she was recently forced to choose between attending a medical

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Canada General News Politics Politics (Canada) 

Health care, housing and infrastructure: 3 election issues to watch in Arctic Canadian community

Emily Blake, CBC News
Posted: Thursday, September 19, 2019 at 16:38 — Last Updated: Friday, October 11, 2019 at 11:03
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Many issues facing candidates for MLA in Hay River, northwestern Canada, this election mirror those facing communities across the North

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