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The Auditor General's report focused specifically on the implementation of the Nunavut Education Act in six key areas: attendance, assessment, bilingual education, inclusive education, curriculum and parental involvement. (Nathan Denette/The Canadian Press)
Canada Society Society (Canada) Special Features 

Auditor General: Nunavut, Canada won’t meet bilingual education goals

CBC News
Posted: Wednesday, November 20, 2013 at 16:30
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When a made-in-Nunavut Education Act was passed by the legislative assembly in Canada’s eastern Arctic territory of Nunavut in 2008,

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Deck hands process some turbot caught on the Arctic Fishery Alliance's Atlantic Prospect. (Vincent Desrosiers)
Business Business (Canada) Canada 

Fisheries and Oceans raises turbot quota in Canada’s eastern Arctic

CBC News
Posted: Monday, November 18, 2013 at 10:10
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The Nunavut fishery industry will be able to take advantage of a 1,500 tonne increase in the total allowable turbot

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Jordin Tootoo meets with fans in the Nunavut hamlet of Kimmirut. (Emily Ridlington/CBC)
Canada Society Society (Canada) 

Nunavut NHL player Jordin Tootoo could be headed for minors

CBC News
Posted: Thursday, November 14, 2013 at 10:28
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National Hockey League player Jordin Tootoo could be heading to the minors as soon as Friday, since no NHL teams

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Spending on social assistance has increased from $24 million in 2005 to $36 million in 2013. (Source: Nunavut Bureau of Statistics)
Business Business (Canada) Canada 

Poverty, inequality rising in Canada’s eastern Arctic

CBC News
Posted: Tuesday, November 12, 2013 at 10:12
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If you live in the community of Resolute Bay in Canada’s eastern Arctic territory of Nunavut, it’s likely you have

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Performance, Komatik Skatebox 201, digital video still, Video by Navarana Igloliorte (Courtesy of Galerie Donald Brown)
Art Art (Canada) Blog Culture Culture (Canada) Special Features 

FEATURE INTERVIEW: Inuk aritst Mark Igloliorte on how skateboarding inspires his work

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic @arctic_eq
Posted: Wednesday, October 23, 2013 at 15:19 — Last Updated: Friday, March 16, 2018 at 14:53
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Mark Igloliorte is an Inuk artist from Nunatsiavut, the Inuit self-governing region in the Atlantic Canadian province of Newfoundland and

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Culture Denmark/Greenland 

VIDEO: Interview with Aqqaluk Lynge

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic @arctic_eq
Posted: Monday, October 21, 2013 at 09:00
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Aqqaluk Lynge is a poet and the current chair of the Inuit Circumpolar Council and the president of the ICC–

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A caribou in the Torngat Mountains. (Nunatsiavut Government)
Blog Canada Environment Environment (Canada) 

First Nations and Inuit join forces over caribou conservation

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic @arctic_eq
Posted: Thursday, October 10, 2013 at 09:32 — Last Updated: Monday, March 19, 2018 at 13:24
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Caribou is central to Inuit and First Nations cultural life in northern Canada. But the decrease in the numbers of

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Deck hands process some fish caught on the Atlantic Prospect. (Vincent Desrosiers)
Business Business (Canada) Canada 

Qikiqtarjuaq fishery shows promise in northern Canada

CBC News
Posted: Thursday, October 3, 2013 at 09:05
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The Arctic Fishery Alliance’s attempt to establish a turbot fishery in Qikiqtarjuaq, a community of about 500 people in Canada’s

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Denmark/Greenland Environment Environment (Denmark/Greenland) 

VIDEO – Changing Sea Ice: The Ripple Effect

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic @arctic_eq
Posted: Monday, September 9, 2013 at 09:02
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Anthropologist Lene Kielsen Holm, an Inuk (Inuit) from Greenland, talks about the importance of sea ice in Inuit culture and

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TuuMotz, one of the founders of Nuuk Posse, Greenland’s seminal hip-hop group. (Eye on the Arctic / Radio Canada International)
Culture Denmark/Greenland 

VIDEO: Sixteen Minutes with TuuMotz

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic @arctic_eq
Posted: Tuesday, August 13, 2013 at 08:14
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Meet TuuMotz, one of the founders of Nuuk Posse, Greenland’s seminal hip-hop group and now a solo artist. Here, Radio

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The Qikiqtani General Hospital in Iqaluit. A new study says Inuit children’s hospital admissions for respiratory illnesses such as RSV, pneumonia or bronchitis are costing Northern governments millions of dollars. (CBC)
Canada Society Society (Canada) 

Sick babies cost Nunavut, Canada millions, study finds

CBC News
Posted: Thursday, August 8, 2013 at 14:06
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A new study says Inuit children’s hospital admissions for respiratory illnesses such as RSV, pneumonia or bronchitis are costing Northern

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Hunters from Pangnirtung, Nunavut, succeeded in catching a bowhead whale Tuesday afternoon near the historic whaling station at Kekerten Island in Cumberland Sound. (Photo courtesy of Timiusie Dialla / CBC.ca)
Canada Society Society (Canada) 

Pangnirtung, Nunavut lands its bowhead whale

CBC News
Posted: Wednesday, August 7, 2013 at 15:03
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There were celebrations in Pangnirtung, a predominantly Inuit community, in Canada’s eastern Arctic territory of Nunavut, after hunters succeeded in

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A nurse takes a blood sample from a boy at the Indian School in Port Alberni, B.C., in 1948, during a period when nutritional experiments were being conducted on students there and in five other residential schools. (Library and Archives Canada/Canadian Press)
Canada Society Society (Canada) 

Residential schools: Health Canada records to be examined

CBC News
Posted: Wednesday, August 7, 2013 at 09:34
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The Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada (TRC), a commission tasked with uncovering the full story of the residential school

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Part of Arctic Bay glows beneath the hills surrounding the community under the almost full moon.(Clare Kines)
Blog Business Denmark/Greenland Photo Galleries 

Greenland inspires Arctic Bay, Canada tourism strategy

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic @arctic_eq
Posted: Friday, August 2, 2013 at 16:23 — Last Updated: Thursday, March 15, 2018 at 08:27
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Arctic Bay, Nunavut has everything going for it when it comes to attracting tourists. This predominantly Inuit community of around

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The hamlet of Igloolik, Nunavut, will be getting a new high school that is planned to open in September 2017. (CBC)
Canada Society Society (Canada) 

Nunavut, Canada community to get new high school

CBC News
Posted: Thursday, August 1, 2013 at 13:47
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The hamlet of Igloolik, Nunavut, will be getting a new high school that is planned to open in September 2017.

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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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