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Cape Dorset, in Canada’s eastern Arctic, considers returning to Inuktitut name

CBC News
Posted: Friday, July 5, 2019 at 11:40
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The Nunavut community of Cape Dorset could go back to its traditional name. The community was named by English explorer

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Canada General Politics Politics (Canada) 

Six Inuit guardian groups to receive $4.3M in funding from Ottawa

Ryan Patrick Jones, CBC News
Posted: Thursday, July 4, 2019 at 11:46 — Last Updated: Thursday, July 4, 2019 at 11:49
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Six Inuit organizations will receive $4.3 million in federal funding for a variety of environmental stewardship programs. The money will

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Canada Culture Culture (Canada) General 

Inuk soprano Deantha Edmunds, from Atlantic Canada, embraces all the things that make her who she is

Heather Barrett, CBC News
Posted: Monday, July 1, 2019 at 06:30
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When Deantha Edmunds left her hometown of Corner Brook a few decades ago, she took a little bit of her

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Canada General Politics Politics (Canada) 

Nunavut educator Edna Agnes Ekhivalak Elias among appointments to Order of Canada

Peter Zimonjic, CBC News
Posted: Thursday, June 27, 2019 at 15:57 — Last Updated: Thursday, June 27, 2019 at 16:03
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Gov. Gen. Julie Payette has announced the names of 83 new appointments to the Order of Canada, including actor Donald

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Canada General Society Society (Canada) 

Royal Canadian Mint issues Nunavut gold collector coin to commemorate 20th anniversary of Arctic territory

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic @arctic_eq
Posted: Thursday, June 27, 2019 at 15:12 — Last Updated: Thursday, June 27, 2019 at 15:15
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The Royal Canadian Mint has issued a collector coin to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the eastern Arctic territory of

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Canada General Politics Politics (Canada) 

Canada’s new Indigenous languages law does not protect Inuit languages, leaders say

CBC News
Posted: Thursday, June 27, 2019 at 10:24
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Inuit leaders are calling on the Canadian government to make a real commitment to protect Inuit languages, saying the recently

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Business Business (Canada) Canada General 

Ottawa approves merger between Canadian North and First Air

Nick Murray, CBC News
Posted: Thursday, June 20, 2019 at 11:03
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The Canadian government has approved the merger between northern airlines First Air and Canadian North. In a press release Wednesday

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Canada General Politics Politics (Canada) 

Canadian eastern Arctic: Inuit values, inmate care, focus of new Nunavut Corrections Act

Sara Frizzell, CBC News
Posted: Thursday, June 20, 2019 at 10:23
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Nunavut’s new Corrections Act focuses on Inuit participation, mental health for inmates, and creates an independent oversight position for the

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Canada General Politics Politics (Canada) 

Leaked report says teacher education program not sufficient in Nunavut, Arctic Canada

CBC News
Posted: Wednesday, June 19, 2019 at 10:52
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A leaked report by a Vancouver-based research firm concluded that the Nunavut Teacher Education Program (NTEP) was “not capable of

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Canada General Society Society (Canada) 

Inuk student biking across Canada to raise awareness of suicide crisis among Inuit youth

Jessica Deer, CBC News
Posted: Monday, June 17, 2019 at 14:17 — Last Updated: Monday, June 17, 2019 at 15:31
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After a wave of youth suicides in Nunavik, the Inuit region of Northern Quebec, last fall, Inuk student Hannah Tooktoo

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Canada General Politics Politics (Canada) 

Canada’s Nunavut territory to get large slice of $40 million federal harvester support program

Nick Murray, CBC News
Posted: Monday, June 17, 2019 at 09:51
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A national Inuit organization is pushing for Inuit to get a significant chunk of Ottawa’s promised $40 million for a

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Canada General Society Society (Canada) 

New Canadian cancer strategy has focus on Inuit, First Nations and Métis people

Marc Winkler, CBC News
Posted: Thursday, June 13, 2019 at 09:41
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The Canadian Partnership against Cancer has released its latest 10-year strategy and it includes a special focus on Inuit, First

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Canada General Society Society (Canada) 

TB rates remain high in Nunavut, Canada despite community testing

Kieran Oudshoorn, CBC News
Posted: Tuesday, June 11, 2019 at 11:50
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Tuberculosis rates in Nunavut (Canadian eastern Arctic) remain high despite the federal government spending millions of dollars on screening clinics

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Canada General Society Society (Canada) 

Hospital in southern Canada apologizes to Inuit family who buried wrong baby

CBC News
Posted: Friday, June 7, 2019 at 16:04
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The president of a Winnipeg hospital says she’s “deeply sorry” and promised a complete review, after a Nunavut family learned

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Canada Society Society (Canada) 

Inadequate shelter services in Arctic Canada imprison Inuit women in cycle of violence: study

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic @arctic_eq
Posted: Friday, June 7, 2019 at 13:44 — Last Updated: Tuesday, July 30, 2019 at 09:52
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The lack of women’s shelters, transition lodging and second-stage housing services is keeping Inuit women trapped in an ongoing cycle

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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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