Inuk woman from Arctic Canada wins $25K national STEAM Horizon award
Tyra Cockney-Goose is the first Inuk, and the only woman this year, to win the prestigious STEAM Horizon award. The
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Naturopath from Northern Canada publishes book challenging assumptions around Indigenous medicine
A Yellowknife, Northwest Territories naturopathic doctor and Indigenous health advocate is hoping to help build bridges between traditional and western
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Minister responsible for Canada’s northern affairs steps away from cabinet for cancer treatment
Dominic LeBlanc, the federal minister of intergovernmental affairs and northern affairs, announced on Friday afternoon that he is temporarily stepping
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Gonorrhea, syphilis rates skyrocket in Canada’s Northwest Territories
The N.W.T. chief public health officer is issuing a public health advisory after seeing a dramatic rise in the rates
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Indigenous women across Canada come forward with accounts of forced sterilization, says lawyer
A proposed class action lawsuit alleging the coerced sterilization of Indigenous women in Canada is turning up reports from more
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Relying on short-term doctors may harm health care in Canada’s eastern Arctic
Nunavut, in Canada’s eastern Arctic, suffers from a shortage of permanent or long-term doctors and nurses and if the territory
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Canada: Inuit elder has waited months in southern city for access to home dialysis
A Nunavut (eastern Arctic) elder and former MLA with kidney failure says he feels like he’s being held hostage in
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Northwestern Canada not prepared for aging population, doctor says
Yukon is not doing enough to prepare for an older population, according to the territory’s top doctor. Brendan Hanley, Yukon’s
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Longread – How an Inuit community in Atlantic Canada fought a tuberculosis outbreak
Gussie Bennett, a popular and outgoing teenager in Nain, Newfoundland, used to run down to the community rink every day
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Finland still the happiest country in the world, UN report says
Finland has once again been ranked as the happiest country in the world. The Nordic nation received the accolade for
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Laptop with health data stolen from Northern Canadian gov was unencrypted
This is the final story on the stolen laptop files. Here’s Part 1 and Part 2. The Northwest Territories government’s
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Canada’s PM apologizes to Inuit for ‘colonial’ mistreatment of tuberculosis patients
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau today apologized in Iqaluit, Nunavut for the federal policy on tuberculosis in the mid-20th century,
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Why are the tuberculosis rates in the Canadian Arctic 290 times those in the rest of the country?
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau today apologized in Iqaluit, Nunavut for the way the Canadian government treated Inuit patients with tuberculosis
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Northern gov employee given privacy training weeks before laptop with health data stolen
This is part 2 of three stories on the stolen laptop files. Here’s part 1. Part 3 is scheduled for next
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Alaska’s Murkowski a no-show at Senate vote on abortion bill
The stage was set in the U.S. Senate Monday for a divisive vote related to late-term abortion, and one open
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