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How one man has made a place for struggling ivory carvers in Anchorage, Alaska

Zachariah Hughes, Alaska Public Media
Posted: Monday, November 4, 2019 at 11:44
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In a cluttered downtown Anchorage, Alaska workshop, Leon Misak Kinneeveauk pondered what to do with small walrus skull on an

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Canada General Society Society (Canada) 

Northern Canada: New health centre in Cape Dorset could hold those on suicide watch, inquest hears

Sara Frizzell, CBC News
Posted: Thursday, October 31, 2019 at 10:11
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Cape Dorset’s new health centre will be the first in Canada’s eastern Arctic territory of Nunavut to have a room

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Art Art (Canada) Canada Culture General 

Photos show Torngat Mountains in Canada’s eastern Arctic as you’ve never seen them before

Lindsay Bird, CBC News
Posted: Friday, October 25, 2019 at 15:10
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He’s shot former U.S. presidents, Hollywood stars and candid portraits from Haiti to Hawaii. But now acclaimed photographer David Howells

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Canada General Politics Politics (Canada) 

Labrador MP slams Innu leadership in legal spat over NunatuKavut Inuit self-determination

CBC News
Posted: Tuesday, October 22, 2019 at 12:14 — Last Updated: Tuesday, October 22, 2019 at 16:31
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Moments after her election win sent Yvonne Jones back to Ottawa for a third term, the Labrador MP broke her

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Canada General Politics Politics (Canada) 

Riding including Arctic Quebec goes for separatist Bloc Québécois in Canada’s federal election

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic @arctic_eq
Posted: Tuesday, October 22, 2019 at 08:18 — Last Updated: Tuesday, October 22, 2019 at 14:04
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The candidate for the centre-left Bloc Québécois (BQ), the Quebec separatist party, won the riding that includes the Arctic region

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Canada General Politics Politics (Canada) 

Inuk MP Yvonne Jones hangs on to Labrador riding in Atlantic Canada

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic @arctic_eq
Posted: Tuesday, October 22, 2019 at 07:13 — Last Updated: Tuesday, October 22, 2019 at 14:04
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Yvonne Jones, the Liberal Party MP in the Labrador riding of the Atlantic Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador, held

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Canada General Politics Politics (Canada) 

Residents in Arctic Canadian territory call for Inuktitut on federal election ballots

Jackie McKay, CBC News
Posted: Monday, October 21, 2019 at 10:32
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Some Nunavummiut (residents of Nunavut, in Canada’s eastern Arctic) are disappointed that there aren’t Inuktitut ballots for voters in the

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Canada General Politics Politics (Canada) 

Inuit artists criticize Canada’s Green Party leader for opposing commercial seal trade

Jorge Barrera, CBC News
Posted: Friday, October 18, 2019 at 11:12
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Two prominent Inuit artists say Canada’s Green Party leader Elizabeth May is being “hypocritical” by claiming to support Indigenous rights

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Canada General Politics Politics (Canada) 

Missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls: What Canada’s parties are promising

Rhiannon Johnson, CBC News
Posted: Thursday, October 17, 2019 at 14:02 — Last Updated: Thursday, October 17, 2019 at 16:09
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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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Canada General Politics Politics (Canada) 

Pilot project in Nunatsiavut, Atlantic Canada aims to keep Inuit foster children in the region

CBC News
Posted: Monday, October 14, 2019 at 13:00
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The Nunatsiavut government, the regional government which represents the Inuit of northern Labrador in Atlantic Canada, is testing a pilot

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Canada General Politics Politics (Canada) 

Housing in Canada’s Nunavut territory: a federal election explainer

Beth Brown, CBC News
Posted: Friday, October 11, 2019 at 10:57 — Last Updated: Friday, October 11, 2019 at 13:25
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Housing is high on the platform lists of all of Nunavut’s federal election candidates, but officials say they have yet

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Canada General Politics Politics (Canada) 

Climate kicks off Canada’s French-language leaders’ debate, but no mention of Inuit or Arctic

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic @arctic_eq
Posted: Thursday, October 10, 2019 at 23:55 — Last Updated: Friday, October 11, 2019 at 13:56
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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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Canada General Society Society (Canada) 

Offender in Northern Canada wins appeal, overturns banishment from his community

Beth Brown, CBC News
Posted: Thursday, October 10, 2019 at 10:35
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A Nunavut, Northern Canada man convicted of sexual assault and breaking and entering is no longer going to be banished

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Canada Environment Environment (Canada) General 

Climate change doc from Arctic Canadian teens to be shown at UN conference

Mackenzie Scott, CBC News
Posted: Wednesday, October 9, 2019 at 14:17 — Last Updated: Friday, October 11, 2019 at 13:23
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A group of seven teenagers from Tuktoyaktuk, northwestern Canada, has been invited to show a documentary they made on climate

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Canada General Politics Politics (Canada) 

Canadian Liberal leader makes climate pitch to northerners on Arctic campaign stop

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic @arctic_eq
Posted: Tuesday, October 8, 2019 at 15:44 — Last Updated: Friday, October 11, 2019 at 13:24
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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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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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