Ottawa tells court First Nation child welfare compensation order could cost $8 billion
A senior federal official says a human rights tribunal ruling ordering Ottawa to compensate First Nation children apprehended through the
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Offender in Northern Canada wins appeal, overturns banishment from his community
A Nunavut, Northern Canada man convicted of sexual assault and breaking and entering is no longer going to be banished
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Atlantic Canada: Innu Nation asks court to quash NunatuKavut agreement with Ottawa
The Innu Nation, in Atlantic Canada, is again challenging the Indigenous status of the NunatuKavut Community Council, this time in
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Ottawa seeks judicial review in decision to compensate First Nations kids
Canada’s Liberal government led by Justin Trudeau is challenging a landmark human rights ruling to compensate apprehended First Nations children
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Eye on the Arctic report Death in the Arctic among finalists at Canadian Online Publishing Awards
Eye on the Arctic has been named as a finalist at the 2019 Canadian Online Publishing Awards (COPA) in the
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Inmates in Northern Canada jail denounce unfair punishments through ‘kangaroo court’
Prisoners at Nunavut’s biggest jail say they’re being unfairly punished for breaking jail rules by an internal court that doesn’t
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Class action alleging discrimination by RCMP in Canada’s North growing, says lawyer
There is steady interest in joining a $600 million class action lawsuit claiming RCMP discrimination against Indigenous people in Canada’s
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U.S. Justice Department to send millions to rural Alaska law enforcement
The U.S. Justice Department announced Thursday how it plans to spend millions of dollars of federal money promised by Attorney
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Ottawa must compensate First Nations children impacted by on-reserve welfare system, tribunal rules
Ottawa must pay tens of thousands of dollars to every First Nations child who was placed in the on-reserve child
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Northern Canada: Council of Yukon First Nations to train writers for Indigenous sentencing reports
The Council of Yukon First Nations (CYFN) is taking over a pilot project aimed at training people in the Northern
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Man in Arctic Canada found guilty of killing polar bear without tag
A man who killed a polar bear on an isolated island in Canada’s Arctic cannot claim self-defence because he got
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Judge sends sex offender back to Arctic Canadian community despite lack of treatment
The Northwest Territories newest judge recently faced a challenge N.W.T. judges have been confronting for decades — what to do
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New Corrections Act brings big changes to jails in Canada’s Northwest Territories
The Northwest Territories’ overhaul of its corrections law could be a new model for reconciliation and offer inmates “a light
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Judge ignored Indigenous sentencing report while giving Inuk man open-ended sentence, appeals court rules
A trial judge unfairly ignored an Inuk man’s abusive and violent upbringing when slapping him with an indeterminate prison sentence
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Nursing shortage at obstetrics unit in Northern Canadian city leads to workplace complaint, appeal
The manager of approximately 90 nurses at Stanton Territorial Hospital in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories is appealing a conduct committee’s decision
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