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Arctic Canada: Nunavut arts and crafts industry enduring … for now

Nick Murray, CBC News
Posted: Monday, April 20, 2020 at 15:04
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Nunavut’s Inuit art scene is still in decent shape in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, but those who help

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Canada RCI Society Society (Canada) 

COVID-19 shouldn’t overshadow ongoing fight against TB, Canadian Inuit leaders say

Olivia Stefanovich, CBC News
Posted: Monday, April 13, 2020 at 10:21
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Before the COVID-19 pandemic hit, Canada’s Inuit were already grappling with a much deadlier respiratory disease: tuberculosis. The TB rate

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Canada RCI Society Society (Canada) 

Arctic Canada: here’s why Nunavut will name a small community with a COVID-19 case

CBC News
Posted: Wednesday, April 8, 2020 at 17:49
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Nunavut’s chief public health officer says officials in the territory will be identifying a specific community if someone there is

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Canada Politics Politics (Canada) RCI 

Canada’s PM OKs use of local reserve forces in Arctic Quebec during COVID-19 pandemic

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic @arctic_eq
Posted: Friday, April 3, 2020 at 15:56 — Last Updated: Friday, April 3, 2020 at 17:03
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Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau accepted Quebec’s request on Friday to use the Canadian Rangers, local reserve forces, to assist

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Canada RCI Society Society (Canada) 

Region-wide curfew in Arctic Quebec after first confirmed case of COVID-19

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic @arctic_eq
Posted: Monday, March 30, 2020 at 10:09
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A region-wide curfew was put in place across the Inuit region of Arctic Quebec Sunday night after the first case

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Canada RCI Society Society (Canada) 

Publisher in Arctic Canada putting Inuit-language books online amidst COVID-19 closures

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic @arctic_eq
Posted: Thursday, March 26, 2020 at 10:19
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A publisher, in partnership with the organization that represents Inuit in Canada’s eastern Arctic territory of Nunavut, are making Inuit-language

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Canada RCI Society Society (Canada) 

Inuit gov. in Atlantic Canada calls for people to stop travel to and from their region

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic @arctic_eq
Posted: Thursday, March 19, 2020 at 16:46
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In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the government of Nunatsiavut, the Inuit region in the Atlantic Canadian province of Newfoundland

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Canada Environment Environment (Canada) General 

Exemptions to possible Arctic HFO ban denounced by Indigenous orgs, environmental groups

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic @arctic_eq
Posted: Friday, February 21, 2020 at 15:51
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The International Maritime Organization’s sub-committee on Pollution Prevention and Response (PPR) meeting wound up in London on Friday, with agreement

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Canada Environment Environment (Canada) General RCI 

IMO to tackle possible Arctic heavy fuel oil ban starting Monday

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic @arctic_eq
Posted: Friday, February 14, 2020 at 15:41
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The International Maritime Organization will be tackling the thorny question of a heavy fuel oil ban in the Arctic when

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Canada Environment Environment (Canada) General RCI 

Renewable energy must be community tailored, Arctic conference hears

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic @arctic_eq
Posted: Friday, February 7, 2020 at 14:25 — Last Updated: Friday, February 7, 2020 at 14:43
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As  communities across the polar region of North America work to get off diesel, renewable energy projects must be tailored

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Canada RCI Society Society (Canada) 

Canada honours Arctic’s last known WW II bone collector

Olivia Stefanovich, CBC News
Posted: Monday, January 27, 2020 at 14:14 — Last Updated: Monday, January 27, 2020 at 14:30
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In late May 1940, 20-year-old Qapik Attagutsiak voluntarily picked up a burlap bag, put her one-year-old son in her amauti ⁠— a

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Canada Politics Politics (Canada) RCI 

Arctic Canada: Nunavut’s government and Inuit organization renew promise to work together

Sara Frizzell, CBC News
Posted: Wednesday, January 22, 2020 at 14:31
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Nunavut Tunngavik Inc. (NTI) and the government of Nunavut have renewed their commitment to work together with the signing of

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Canada Politics Politics (Canada) RCI 

Eliminating tuberculosis among Canada’s Inuit stalled due to lack of funding

Kieran Oudshoorn, CBC News
Posted: Monday, January 20, 2020 at 10:00
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Nearly two years after the federal government committed to eliminating tuberculosis among Inuit by 2030, progress is stalled and the

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Canada General RCI Society Society (Canada) 

Man gets life sentence for murder of Nunavik teen Robert Adams in Arctic Quebec

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic @arctic_eq
Posted: Thursday, January 16, 2020 at 20:50 — Last Updated: Tuesday, April 13, 2021 at 12:51
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KUUJJUAQ, Quebec – A 34 year-old man pleaded guilty to second-degree murder on Wednesday in the 2018 killing of Nunavik

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Canada Culture Culture (Canada) RCI 

New Quebec audio guide shows how to correctly pronounce Inuktitut place names in part of Arctic Canada

Steve Rukavina, CBC News
Posted: Wednesday, January 15, 2020 at 17:21
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The Quebec government department responsible for authorizing place names, the Commission de toponymie du Québec, has launched a new online audio guide to

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The Parliament of Canada is the federal legislature of Canada, seated at Parliament Hill in Ottawa, and is composed of three parts: the Monarch, the Senate, and the House of Commons. Photo: La Presse canadienne / Adrian Wyld

Inuit push for land protection with focus on social economy

In Taloyoak, Nunavut, the northernmost hamlet on mainland Canada, Inuit are working to conserve their territory and set up a community-driven, land-based economy. Photo : Eilís Quinn

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