As provincial budget approaches, Quebec Bar sounds alarm on dire state of Nunavik justice system
With the Quebec provincial budget scheduled for later this month, the Quebec Bar Association is demanding immediate, short-term investments to
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Canada’s northwestern Yukon territory reflects on Gladue Indigenous sentencing principle
It’s been one year since the Gladue Report Writing Program was launched in Yukon, which formalized the process for creating
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Finland’s indigenous Sámi score victory in fishing dispute
The District Court of Finnish Lapland has overturned all charges of illicit fishing against four Sámi men from Utsjoki, the
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Not a ‘bad thing’ if Canada’s Nunavut territory sued over bilingual education, says lawyer
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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‘That is so sick’: Sex charges in Canada against fugitive French priest stayed
The arrest warrant for an Oblate priest accused of abusing children in Nunavut (east-Arctic Canada) has been stayed by the
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Northwestern Canada: Indigenous lawyer and former federal candidate Melissa Atkinson dies
Melissa Atkinson, Yukon’s first Indigenous Crown prosecutor, a former chair of the Yukon Human Rights Commission, and federal NDP (centre-left)
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Lack of staff forces legal aid closure in Inuit region of Arctic Quebec
The legal aide office in Kuujjuaq, the administrative capital of the Inuit region of Nunavik, Quebec, will be temporarily shut
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Arctic Canada: Wrongful death lawsuit settled in case of Nunavut’s Baby Makibi
A settlement has been reached in the wrongful death lawsuit against the government of Nunavut and a former nurse in
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U.S. government shutdown will doom Arctic projects in court, critics say
Now that U.S. President Donald Trump has agreed to temporarily fund the Interior Department, the Coast Guard and other closed
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Career criminal was snatching eggs from rare birds around the world – including in Northern Quebec
When U.K. border officials nabbed 56-year-old smuggler Jeffrey Lendrum at Heathrow Airport in June, he was sporting an unseasonably heavy
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Constitutional challenge mounted for Indigenous man charged with illegal caribou hunting in Atlantic Canada
Innu Nation hunters who are in provincial court in Labrador, Atlantic Canada this week are making a constitutional challenge against
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Alaska: When stepping back into prison is a jump forward on the road to recovery
Alexandria Niksik has been in and out of prison for seven years. Her most recent return home only lasted 16
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Nowhere to run for bank robber in Arctic Svalbard
There were few ways to escape for the man who robbed the bank in Longyearbyen, Svalbard, Friday. He threatened with
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[SPECIAL REPORT] Death in the Arctic: A community grieves, a father fights for change
When Bernie Adams’ 19-year-old son Robert was stabbed to death in the Inuit village of Kangiqsujuaq, Quebec in March 2018,
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Language barrier in northern Quebec can make court baffling for Inuit, justice workers say
For Inuit in Quebec accused of breaking the law, the first of many barriers to equal treatment in the justice
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