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Camp in Nunavut, Arctic Canada helping teens make new connections and gain new skills

Kate Kyle, CBC News
Posted: Monday, August 5, 2019 at 15:42 — Last Updated: Monday, August 5, 2019 at 15:49
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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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Canada General Politics Politics (Canada) 

Justin Trudeau rehashes old federal funding in housing announcement for Nunavut territory

Sara Frizzell, CBC News
Posted: Friday, August 2, 2019 at 11:50 — Last Updated: Friday, August 2, 2019 at 15:32
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau rehashed the existing federal funding streams for housing in Nunavut in an announcement Friday morning in

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Canada General Politics Politics (Canada) 

Marine protected area in Canada’s eastern Arctic comes with $55M for Inuit communities, PM announces

Sara Frizzell, CBC News
Posted: Friday, August 2, 2019 at 11:38 — Last Updated: Friday, August 2, 2019 at 15:31
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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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Canada General Politics Politics (Canada) 

Nunavut MP Hunter Tootoo won’t seek re-election in Canadian election

Sidney Cohen, CBC News
Posted: Wednesday, July 31, 2019 at 15:13
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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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Canada Culture Culture (Canada) General 

Non-fiction book about inuk residential school survivor from Atlantic Canada attracts readers in Poland

Katie Breen, CBC News
Posted: Wednesday, July 31, 2019 at 09:58 — Last Updated: Friday, August 2, 2019 at 09:37
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Poland is half a world away from the legacy of residential schools, but to the author of a new book

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Canada General Society Society (Canada) 

Canadian gov directs $1.8M to legal support for Nunavut’s women and children

CBC News
Posted: Tuesday, July 30, 2019 at 11:32
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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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Canada Culture Culture (Canada) General 

Alien invasion hits community in Arctic Canada in filming of sci-fi movie

CBC News
Posted: Monday, July 29, 2019 at 14:51
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Teen girls are fighting against an alien invasion in the first feature movie to ever be filmed in Pangnirtung, Nunavut.

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Canada General News Science Science (Canada) 

Inuit from northern Quebec are genetically unique from any present-day population, study finds

Priscilla Hwang, CBC News
Posted: Tuesday, July 23, 2019 at 09:38 — Last Updated: Friday, July 26, 2019 at 16:39
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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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Canada General News Society Society (Canada) 

Atlantic Canada: Dene elders visit Nain to teach traditional moosehide techniques to Inuit

CBC News
Posted: Monday, July 22, 2019 at 13:43 — Last Updated: Monday, July 22, 2019 at 13:49
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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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Canada General News Society Society (Canada) 

Inuit describe ‘bittersweet’ experience at burial sites of lost loved ones in Southern Canada

CBC News
Posted: Thursday, July 18, 2019 at 14:02 — Last Updated: Friday, July 19, 2019 at 11:44
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Inuit families travel to Southern Canada to discover their relatives are in unmarked graves. For Simon Nattaq, it was a

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Canada General Society Society (Canada) 

Inuit languages declining in Canada’s Nunavut territory, stats show

Sara Frizzell, CBC News
Posted: Wednesday, July 10, 2019 at 10:30
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Inuit languages declined in Nunavut in the 15 years between 2001 and 2016, according to a Statistics Canada report released

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Canada General Society Society (Canada) 

Seal meat, dinosaurs and friends: Nunavut Day celebrated in Canada’s eastern Arctic

CBC News
Posted: Wednesday, July 10, 2019 at 10:05
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July 9 is Nunavut Day, and in Iqaluit, people took to the streets to celebrate 26 years since the Nunavut

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Canada General Politics Politics (Canada) 

Inuit groups in Canada to get over $161M for skills, employment training

Sara Frizzell, CBC News
Posted: Tuesday, July 9, 2019 at 15:50 — Last Updated: Tuesday, July 9, 2019 at 15:52
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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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Canada General Society Society (Canada) 

Police force in Northern Quebec faces officer shortage

CBC News
Posted: Tuesday, July 9, 2019 at 10:14
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The Kativik Regional Police Force (KRPF) is facing a staff shortage after losing more than a dozen officers over the

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Canada General Science Science (Canada) 

Japan scopes out future Arctic research in Cambridge Bay, Northern Canada

Kate Kyle, CBC News
Posted: Monday, July 8, 2019 at 11:41 — Last Updated: Friday, July 12, 2019 at 11:50
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A Japanese research institute is seeking to deepen its collaboration with Canadian scientists and Inuit to further research in the

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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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