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Poilievre stresses Arctic defence plans as northern issues surface in election debate

Eye on the Arctic
Posted: Thursday, April 17, 2025 at 12:14 — Last Updated: Friday, April 18, 2025 at 01:20
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English-language debate:  Simultaneous Inuktut translation [South Baffin dialect]: Poilievre stresses Arctic defence plans as northern issues surface in election debate

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Sunday, Elisapie Isaac’s cover album won a Juno award. Photo: Elisapie in the Q studio in Toronto. (Vivian Rashotte/CBC)
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Inuk singer-songwriter won Canada’s contemporary Indigenous artist of the year

April Hudson, CBC News
Posted: Tuesday, March 26, 2024 at 07:57 — Last Updated: Tuesday, March 26, 2024 at 12:12
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When Elisapie Isaac started working on Inuktitut, a cover album of classic songs translated into Inuktitut, she expected it to

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Heritage centres, language authority among initiatives to fortify Inuktitut in Nunavik

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic @arctic_eq
Posted: Friday, November 10, 2023 at 15:59
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Inuit Heritage Centres and an Inuktitut Language Authority are among the key initiatives highlighted a recent declaration to strengthen Inuktitut

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Makivvik and Avataq sign MOU to strengthen Inuktitut in Nunavik

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Posted: Tuesday, October 31, 2023 at 17:01
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Makivvik and Avataq signed an MOU on Tuesday to strengthen Inuktitut in Nunavik, saying it will provide the financial resources

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Featured • Zone 3 Society Society (Canada) 

Tuberculosis numbers increasing in Nunavik communities

CBC News
Posted: Friday, July 7, 2023 at 09:50
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An annual music festival was postponed due to a tuberculosis outbreak in northern Quebec, as the Nunavik region grapples with a series

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Syllabic eye charts: Doctors’ groundbreaking approach for Indigenous patients

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic @arctic_eq
Posted: Friday, April 14, 2023 at 15:51
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Inuit in northern Quebec are now able to take vision tests using the Inuktitut writing system, after two Montreal doctors

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Nunavut MLAs call for territorial search and rescue centre

CBC News
Posted: Friday, March 18, 2022 at 16:35
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Two Nunavut MLAs say developing a search-and-rescue operation centre within the territory could help improve response times when people go

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Canada RCI Society Society (Canada) 

Inuktitut added to language translator software

CBC News
Posted: Thursday, January 28, 2021 at 10:18
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An old language is hitting a new platform. Microsoft announced it will be adding Inuktitut text translation to its translator

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Canada RCI Society Society (Canada) 

Canada plans to conduct its first survey in Inuktut

Thomas Rohner, CBC News
Posted: Monday, August 17, 2020 at 13:23
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Statistics Canada, which admits to having historical “data gaps” in the North, will conduct its first survey in all four

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Canada Culture Culture (Canada) RCI 

College in Arctic Canada cancels training program for Inuktitut-speaking teachers this fall

Jackie McKay, CBC News
Posted: Thursday, August 13, 2020 at 10:44 — Last Updated: Thursday, August 13, 2020 at 10:47
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Nunavut Arctic College is not offering a teacher training program for its first-year students this fall — a program seen

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Canada RCI Society Society (Canada) 

How a Canadian interpreter is keeping Inuktut speakers safe through COVID-19

Beth Brown, CBC News
Posted: Monday, August 3, 2020 at 16:09
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Nunavummiut have gotten used to hearing from their health minister and chief public health officer since pandemic precautions were put

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Canada Culture Culture (Canada) RCI 

Inuit TV coming to Northern Canada from new Inuktut-language broadcaster

Beth Brown, CBC News
Posted: Thursday, July 9, 2020 at 15:21 — Last Updated: Tuesday, April 13, 2021 at 10:37
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Nunavut is getting a new all-Inuktut TV channel this year. Inuit TV will have Inuktut programming in dialects from all Inuit

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Canada Culture Culture (Canada) RCI 

New Quebec audio guide shows how to correctly pronounce Inuktitut place names in part of Arctic Canada

Steve Rukavina, CBC News
Posted: Wednesday, January 15, 2020 at 17:21
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The Quebec government department responsible for authorizing place names, the Commission de toponymie du Québec, has launched a new online audio guide to

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Elder in Canada’s eastern Arctic remembers Inuit language weather words rarely used today

CBC News
Posted: Thursday, January 2, 2020 at 08:00 — Last Updated: Friday, January 10, 2020 at 17:15
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Tommy Tatatoapik says changes in lifestyle and use of English contribute to language loss Does the sky look a little

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Canada Politics Politics (Canada) 

30-year-old Canadian federal document shows plan to ‘block’ Inuktut services, Inuit group says

John Last, CBC North
Posted: Monday, December 9, 2019 at 10:20
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Nunavut Tunngavik Incorporated (NTI), the organization that represents the Inuit of Nunavut in negotiations, says it has uncovered a 30-year-old

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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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