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Future of lawsuit over language of instruction in Nunavut, Canada rests with judge

CBC News
Posted: Friday, August 5, 2022 at 09:23
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By Sarah Krymalowski · CBC News Arguments over Nunavut government’s motion to dismiss the lawsuit wrapped Wednesday It’s up to a Nunavut

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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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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 artists in their own words

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic @arctic_eq
Posted: Thursday, December 5, 2019 at 15:57 — Last Updated: Thursday, August 12, 2021 at 13:16
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INUIT ARTISTS IN THEIR OWN WORDS Ooloosie Saila, Untitled, 2017, coloured pencil and ink, 77 x 126.8 cm (Reproduced with

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Arctic Canada: Proposed bill won’t uphold Inuit language rights in Nunavut, education board says

Beth Brown, CBC News
Posted: Friday, November 15, 2019 at 13:29
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A Nunavut, Arctic Canada education group is calling out a “huge inequality” between language groups in Nunavut’s current education act,

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Inuit art, culture and language: Selected reports

Eye on the Arctic
Posted: Saturday, November 9, 2019 at 00:01
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Thursday was International Inuit Day, a celebration set up to acknowledge and celebrate Inuit culture and contributions. To mark this

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Organization representing Canadian Inuit adopts unified Inuktut orthography

Levon Sevunts, Radio Canada International
Posted: Friday, September 27, 2019 at 15:12
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Inuit in Canada are getting a unified orthography for the first time since Inuktut writing systems were introduced by Christian

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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’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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Canadian eastern Arctic: Inuit organization accuses Nunavut’s education system of ‘cultural genocide’

Levon Sevunts, Radio Canada International
Posted: Wednesday, April 24, 2019 at 10:57 — Last Updated: Wednesday, April 24, 2019 at 11:56
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An Inuit organization in charge of overseeing the implementation of the Nunavut Agreement that created Canada’s newest Arctic territory 20

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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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Not a ‘bad thing’ if Canada’s Nunavut territory sued over bilingual education, says lawyer

Sara Frizzell, CBC News
Posted: Thursday, February 28, 2019 at 11:34 — Last Updated: Thursday, February 28, 2019 at 11:42
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A Nunavut lawyer says it wouldn’t be such a “bad thing” if the government of Nunavut (Canadian eastern Arctic) was

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Arctic Canada: Nunavut legislature to see temporary law to suspend bilingual education deadline

Sara Frizzell, CBC News
Posted: Tuesday, February 19, 2019 at 10:06 — Last Updated: Wednesday, February 20, 2019 at 09:21
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The right to bilingual education in Nunavut schools (east-Arctic Canada) will likely be temporarily suspended during the winter sitting of

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Inuit language month kicks off in Canada’s eastern Arctic territory of Nunavut

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic @arctic_eq
Posted: Monday, February 4, 2019 at 10:42 — Last Updated: Monday, February 4, 2019 at 10:43
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February is Inuit language month in Canada’s eastern Arctic territory of Nunavut, and this year, the event will spotlight traditional

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U.N. Year of Indigenous Languages: Spotlight Nunavut

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic @arctic_eq
Posted: Monday, January 14, 2019 at 09:34 — Last Updated: Wednesday, July 24, 2019 at 14:12
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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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