Canadian PM says deaths and disappearances of Indigenous women and girls amount to ‘genocide’
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says his government accepts that the murders and disappearances of Indigenous women and girls across
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Canada’s PM apologizes to Inuit for ‘colonial’ mistreatment of tuberculosis patients
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau today apologized in Iqaluit, Nunavut for the federal policy on tuberculosis in the mid-20th century,
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Why are the tuberculosis rates in the Canadian Arctic 290 times those in the rest of the country?
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau today apologized in Iqaluit, Nunavut for the way the Canadian government treated Inuit patients with tuberculosis
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Trudeau’s offer of Indigenous Services Canada to Wilson-Raybould like ‘asking Nelson Mandela to administer apartheid’
The Canadian prime minister’s attempt to move Jody Wilson-Raybould to the Indigenous Services portfolio was a “deeply humiliating” proposal and
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Canada’s Inuit leaders hope progress is not lost in Trudeau’s latest cabinet shuffle
Inuit leaders are reacting to a recent cabinet shuffle by the federal government, with the leader of an organization representing
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Cabinet shuffle: is reconciliation dropping in priority for Canada’s PM?
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s decision to break up the “dream team” that was leading the work of mending Canada’s relationship
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Iceland’s president admits he went ‘too far’ with threat to ban pineapple pizza
Nearly two years after the president of Iceland drew Canada’s ire with his disparaging comments about pineapple pizza, Gudni Johannesson
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Residents in Churchill, northern Canada rejoice as rail service gets back on track
Residents of Churchill have taken to the streets to celebrate after the federal government announced full passenger and freight rail
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Canada’s PM splits up northern and Indigenous affairs in cabinet shuffle
Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced a major cabinet shuffle on Wednesday that saw northern affairs and Indigenous relations split
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Canada announces new climate change ambassador
Canada has named Patricia Fuller as the country’s new ambassador for climate change. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made the
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NATO wants to keep the Arctic an area of low tensions
Despite rising tensions with Russia in Eastern Europe, the Baltics and more recently in the United Kingdom, NATO would like
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Blog – Trudeau’s Yukon plan: funding another road to nowhere
The past few years have been good for the Canadian road-building industry in the Arctic. In 2011, former Prime Minister
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Too soon to say what Indigenous affairs overhaul means for Arctic, says Inuit leader
Canada’s National Inuit leader says his organization is watching the dissolution of Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada into two separate departments
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Canada’s department of Indigenous and Northern Affairs gets major shake up
Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada (INAC) got a major shake up on Monday with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announcing it
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Canada’s next Supreme Court Justice could come from the North
For the first time ever, Canada is including jurists from the North in its search for a new Supreme Court Justice.
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