Facebook apologizes for removing posts selling sealskin products — again
Facebook users in the North say they’re frustrated the social media giant is removing posts selling sealskin products — again.
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Petition to get suicide crisis declared in Arctic Quebec breaks 50,000 signatures
Long-time Inuit advocate Mary Simon has started a campaign to get the number of deaths by suicide in Nunavik recognized
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Employment rate drops in 2018 in Nunavut, east-Arctic Canada
Nunavut’s employment rate dropped from 55 per cent in 2017 to 54 per cent in 2018, according to Statistics Canada’s
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Ottawa to apologize for forced relocation of Ahiarmiut Inuit in Nunavut
Between 1949 and 1959, officials with the Canadian government forced Ahiarmiut from their homes in southwestern Nunavut, in Canada’s east-Arctic,
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Canada’s Inuit leaders hope progress is not lost in Trudeau’s latest cabinet shuffle
Inuit leaders are reacting to a recent cabinet shuffle by the federal government, with the leader of an organization representing
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Indigenous people flood Quebec’s police watchdog with complaints about misconduct
CBC News has learned that more than half of all allegations of police misconduct brought to Quebec’s Bureau of Independent
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Cabinet shuffle: is reconciliation dropping in priority for Canada’s PM?
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s decision to break up the “dream team” that was leading the work of mending Canada’s relationship
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Seamus O’Regan named Canada’s Minister of Indigenous Services in cabinet shuffle
Montreal MP David Lametti is Canada’s new justice minister, taking over from Jody Wilson-Raybould, who was moved to Veterans Affairs
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U.N. Year of Indigenous Languages: Spotlight Nunavut
The United Nations has designated 2019 as the Year of Indigenous Languages. The goal is to to make people more
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Homeless northerners in Montreal stay connected with outreach worker’s photography
Ten years ago, Ammisee Papialuk travelled to Montreal from Kuujjuarapik, a village at the mouth of the Great Whale River
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Exhibit in Arctic Canada to showcase evolution of parkas
Mary Avalak deftly threads a needle with caribou sinew and makes a couple of stitches in a caribou-skin parka. Picking
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Blog – 2018: Recapping the year in the Arctic
Planet Earth has completed another rotation around the sun, which has now set on the Arctic for the next three
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ITK, an Arctic Council rejig and the summit Finland won’t let die : Northern news to watch for in 2019
All year long, Eye on the Arctic brings you news, and newsmakers, from around the North. But as 2019 gets
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Indigenous man launches $600M class-action lawsuit, claiming police mistreatment in Canada’s northern territories
A teen in Tuktoyaktuk, Northwest Territories (N.W.T.), has launched a $600-million, class-action lawsuit against Canada’s federal police, the RCMP, in
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Tragedies in hamlet in Arctic Canada sparking talk of a Franklin ‘curse’
Some residents of an Arctic hamlet located near the Franklin shipwrecks have linked a spate of tragic deaths in the
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