Many regions in Sweden struggling to cover hospital jobs over the summer
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
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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Day after nurse sit-in in western Nunavik, union denounces employer actions
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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For Nunavik Inuit, care closer to home could cut down on stressful medical travel
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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N.W.T. no longer offering rheumatology services, patients must travel to Edmonton
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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Some Nunavut health centres could close for weeks because of staffing, gov’t says
Health department warns of more closures in several communities this winter The Nunavut government is warning of possible health centre
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Nunavik: Demands for health network to be put under trusteeship
“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
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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Inuit org expresses solidarity with First Nations after Indigenous woman taunted before death in Quebec hospital
Makivik Corporation, the Inuit land claims organization in Arctic Quebec, says it condemns the treatment of Joyce Echaquan, 37, an
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Harmonized data could help understanding of COVID-19 pandemic in North: Arctic Council briefing doc
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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Meet 3 Indigenous health-care workers helping keep Canadian Northern communities safe
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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New pediatricians in northwestern Canada to help serve small communities
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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New clinic at children’s hospital in Ottawa to address specific needs of Inuit patients
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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Mother from Arctic Canada wants investigation after medical travel debacle
A mother from Cambridge Bay, Nunavut, in Arctic Canada, says she was recently forced to choose between attending a medical
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Health care, housing and infrastructure: 3 election issues to watch in Arctic Canadian community
Many issues facing candidates for MLA in Hay River, northwestern Canada, this election mirror those facing communities across the North
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