Camp in Nunavut, Arctic Canada helping teens make new connections and gain new skills
A summer camp aimed at helping young people, including some considered at-risk, in Cambridge Bay, Nunavut, is helping them make
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Justin Trudeau rehashes old federal funding in housing announcement for Nunavut territory
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau rehashed the existing federal funding streams for housing in Nunavut in an announcement Friday morning in
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Marine protected area in Canada’s eastern Arctic comes with $55M for Inuit communities, PM announces
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was in Iqaluit, Nunavut, in Canada’s eastern Arctic on Thursday to announce $54.8 million for Inuit
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Nunavut MP Hunter Tootoo won’t seek re-election in Canadian election
Nunavut MP Hunter Tootoo will not seek re-election in the upcoming Canadian federal election. “I appreciate very much the encouragement
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Non-fiction book about inuk residential school survivor from Atlantic Canada attracts readers in Poland
Poland is half a world away from the legacy of residential schools, but to the author of a new book
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Canadian gov directs $1.8M to legal support for Nunavut’s women and children
The federal government gave three projects in Nunavut $1.8 million to educate residents on the legal protections that exist for
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Alien invasion hits community in Arctic Canada in filming of sci-fi movie
Teen girls are fighting against an alien invasion in the first feature movie to ever be filmed in Pangnirtung, Nunavut.
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Inuit from northern Quebec are genetically unique from any present-day population, study finds
Researchers have found that Inuit from northern Quebec are genetically distinct from any present-day population, and say studying the genes
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Atlantic Canada: Dene elders visit Nain to teach traditional moosehide techniques to Inuit
It’s never too late to make new traditions, as the Inuit people of northern Labrador, Atlantic Canada are proving this
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Inuit describe ‘bittersweet’ experience at burial sites of lost loved ones in Southern Canada
Inuit families travel to Southern Canada to discover their relatives are in unmarked graves. For Simon Nattaq, it was a
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Inuit languages declining in Canada’s Nunavut territory, stats show
Inuit languages declined in Nunavut in the 15 years between 2001 and 2016, according to a Statistics Canada report released
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Seal meat, dinosaurs and friends: Nunavut Day celebrated in Canada’s eastern Arctic
July 9 is Nunavut Day, and in Iqaluit, people took to the streets to celebrate 26 years since the Nunavut
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Inuit groups in Canada to get over $161M for skills, employment training
Canada’s Crown Indigenous-Relations Minister Carolyn Bennett was in Iqaluit, Nunavut on Monday where she announced changes to the federal government’s
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Police force in Northern Quebec faces officer shortage
The Kativik Regional Police Force (KRPF) is facing a staff shortage after losing more than a dozen officers over the
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Japan scopes out future Arctic research in Cambridge Bay, Northern Canada
A Japanese research institute is seeking to deepen its collaboration with Canadian scientists and Inuit to further research in the
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