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U.N. Year of Indigenous Languages: When policy isn’t enough

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic @arctic_eq
Posted: Friday, April 5, 2019 at 15:57 — Last Updated: Wednesday, July 24, 2019 at 14:11
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The United Nations has designated 2019 as the Year of Indigenous Languages. The goal is to to make people more

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Canada General News Politics Politics (Canada) 

Inuit housing strategy in Canada calls for local training to help solve crisis

Garrett Hinchey, CBC News
Posted: Friday, April 5, 2019 at 10:30
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The Inuit-Crown Partnership Committee has released its strategy for addressing a chronic shortage of housing for Inuit, saying that consistent

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Canada Culture Culture (Canada) General News 

Cultural appropriation argument ‘brings us back a few steps,’ says head of Indigenous Music Awards

Lenard Monkman, CBC News
Posted: Thursday, April 4, 2019 at 11:13
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The woman who runs the Manito Ahbee festival said she doesn’t believe cultural appropriation is possible within the Indigenous community,

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Canada Environment Environment (Canada) General News 

Parks Canada battles Arctic ice to explore crumbling Franklin expedition wreck

Dean Beeby, CBC News
Posted: Tuesday, April 2, 2019 at 15:35 — Last Updated: Tuesday, April 2, 2019 at 15:39
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Parks Canada may be in a race against time to research the HMS Erebus as rough Arctic weather conditions badly

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Canada Culture Culture (Canada) General News 

Inuit artists boycott Indigenous Music Awards over cultural appropriation concerns

Lenard Monkman, CBC News
Posted: Tuesday, April 2, 2019 at 14:28
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A group of Inuit artists are pulling their support from the Indigenous Music Awards over concerns that a First Nations

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Canada General News Science Science (Canada) 

Arctic Canada: Nunavut’s Mars training ground now available on Google Street View

Walter Strong, CBC News
Posted: Tuesday, April 2, 2019 at 11:56
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The closest anyone on Earth can get to Mars right now may be with a visit to a 23-million-year old

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Canada General News Politics Politics (Canada) 

‘We’re up here!’ says Nunavut premier as Arctic Canadian territory celebrates 20th anniversary

Levon Sevunts, Radio Canada International
Posted: Monday, April 1, 2019 at 16:31 — Last Updated: Friday, April 5, 2019 at 11:36
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As Nunavut celebrates the 20th anniversary of becoming Canada’s northernmost territory, Premier Joe Savikataaq says he wants people in the

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Canada General News Society Society (Canada) 

Canadian eastern Arctic mines setting example in Indigenous employment: report

Hilary Bird, CBC News
Posted: Monday, April 1, 2019 at 15:31
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A new report from the Conference Board of Canada says employers looking to hire and keep northern Indigenous employees could

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Canada General News Politics Politics (Canada) 

Arctic Canada: Nunavut residents see progress, more work as territory turns 20

CBC News
Posted: Monday, April 1, 2019 at 10:03 — Last Updated: Monday, April 1, 2019 at 10:55
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Twenty years ago, with northern lights and fireworks lighting up the sky, Nunavut became a territory. In Iqaluit on April

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Canada General News Politics Politics (Canada) 

Land claim loan forgiveness to be reinvested in communities, say Indigenous leaders in Northern Canada

Avery Zingel, CBC News
Posted: Thursday, March 28, 2019 at 14:14
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Northern Indigenous leaders are welcoming the federal budget decision to erase debt incurred from land claims and treaty negotiations with

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Canada General News Society Society (Canada) 

Who is the person named ‘Eskimo’ buried in a cemetery in Northern Canada?

Steve Silva, CBC News
Posted: Thursday, March 28, 2019 at 13:40
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A few steps off a lane in Yellowknife’s Lakeview Cemetery, in the Northwest Territories, a grave marker with the word

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Canada General News Society Society (Canada) 

Survey in northern city asks parents: should O Canada be sung in schools?

CBC News
Posted: Thursday, March 28, 2019 at 09:56 — Last Updated: Thursday, March 28, 2019 at 09:58
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The public school authority in Iqaluit, Nunavut is looking into whether O Canada should be sung at its four schools.

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Canada General News Politics Politics (Canada) 

National Day for Truth and Reconciliation may be Canada’s next new statutory holiday

Priscilla Hwang, CBC News
Posted: Wednesday, March 27, 2019 at 10:50 — Last Updated: Wednesday, March 27, 2019 at 13:25
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Canadians are one step closer to getting a new statutory holiday recognizing Indigenous people. Two years ago Saskatchewan MP Georgina

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Canada General News Society Society (Canada) 

Longread – How an Inuit community in Atlantic Canada fought a tuberculosis outbreak

Ossie Michelin, CBC News
Posted: Tuesday, March 26, 2019 at 14:39 — Last Updated: Tuesday, March 26, 2019 at 14:41
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Gussie Bennett, a popular and outgoing teenager in Nain, Newfoundland, used to run down to the community rink every day

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Canada General News Society Society (Canada) 

Inuit family in Arctic Canada suing federal police for killing their son

Nick Murray, CBC News
Posted: Tuesday, March 26, 2019 at 13:27 — Last Updated: Tuesday, April 13, 2021 at 12:38
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The family of a man killed by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) say the Mounties’ failure to invest in

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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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