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Canada to boost subsidies on flour, frozen fruit in major Nutrition North update

11 December 2018 Nick Murray, CBC News 0 Comments food security, Inuit, Iqaluit, Labrador, Nunavik, Nunavut, Nutrition North, NWT, Yukon

Diapers, macaroni, spaghetti, dried beans and frozen french fries are among the new items now going to be subsidized under

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First Nation bans Indigenous harvest of declining caribou herd in northern Quebec

7 December 20187 December 2018 Susan Bell and Betsy Longchap, CBC News 0 Comments caribou, conservation, Cree, First Nations, George River, hunting, Innu, Inuit, Labrador, Leaf River, Naskapi, quebec

The Cree Nation Government has voted in favour of a ban on Cree hunters harvesting caribou from the George River

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Quebec wildlife officers seize caribou intended as gift to northern First Nation

28 November 201828 November 2018 CBC News 0 Comments caribou, Cree, First Nations, hunting, Innu, Labrador, quebec, wildlife

Wildlife officials in Quebec have seized a caribou that was intended to be given as a gift between Indigenous governments

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Ottawa considers listing Labrador caribou herds as at-risk species

23 November 201823 November 2018 CBC News 0 Comments caribou, conservation, endangered species, hunting, indigenous, Innu, Labrador, wildlife

Conservation officials are trying to figure out how to reverse dwindling caribou numbers in Labrador, in Canada’s Maritimes, without impeding

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Inuit in Canada’s east-Arctic say Ottawa not committed to fixing northern food subsidy program

29 October 201829 October 2018 CBC News 1 Comment food, food security, Inuit, Labrador, Nunatsiavut, Nutrition North

The federal government is promising changes to its northern food subsidy program, but Labrador’s Nunatsiavut government (eastern Canada) says Ottawa isn’t listening to

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With one word a day, this man is teaching the world how to speak Inuktitut

29 October 20182 November 2018 Meagan Deuling, CBC News 0 Comments education, indigenous, indigenous languages, Inuit, Inuktitut, Labrador, Language, social media

Angus Andersen doesn’t have internet at home. Every day he goes to the mall, Tim Hortons, his favourite bakery in

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Canada: This caribou herd’s population has dropped 99 % since 2001

21 September 2018 CBC News 0 Comments caribou, conservation, First Nations, indigenous, Inuit, Labrador, quebec, wildlife

The George River caribou herd is in a critical state, according to biologists from Newfoundland and Labrador (Atlantic Canada) and

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Canada moves to recognize NunatuKavut Inuit community in Labrador

12 July 201813 July 2018 Levon Sevunts, Radio Canada International 0 Comments indigenous, Innu, Inuit, Labrador, land claims, NunatuKavut

The NunatuKavut community in southern and central Labrador (Eastern Canada) is entering into talks with the federal government to negotiate

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Former Canadian Mountie sues after developing PTSD while policing in the North

21 June 201826 June 2018 Elizabeth McMillan, CBC News 0 Comments emergency services, Labrador, mental health, Nunavut, police, PTSD, RCMP, rural

A former Mountie is suing the federal government, a doctor and a psychologist who worked for the Royal Canadian Mounted

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Inuit traditional knowledge to guide marine management plan off Labrador coast

29 September 201729 September 2017 Levon Sevunts, Radio Canada International 0 Comments Imappivut, Inuit, Labrador, marine management, Nunatsiavut, plan

The Inuit in northern Labrador and the federal government signed a deal Thursday evening that will see the Inuit use

Falling commodity prices have affected the economies of all three of Canada's northern territories. (iStock)

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Blog: Election results in Canada’s North

20 October 201521 October 2015 Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic 0 Comments Labrador, Nunatsiavut, Nunavik, Nunavut, NWT, Yukon

Canadians went to the polls on Monday, October 19 and elected a Liberal majority government for the first time since

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Caribou numbers plummet in eastern Canada

19 August 2014 Lynn Desjardins, Radio Canada International 0 Comments biologists, biology, George River, Labrador, Newfoundland, quebec, reindeer, wildlife

Biologists are alarmed at the precipitous decline in the George River caribou population roaming the eastern provinces of Quebec, and

Northern planespotters should be on the lookout for CF-18 Hornet fighter aircraft, CC-130T Hercules, like the one pictured above, and CC-150T Polaris air-to-air refuelling aircraft taking part in NORAD's Operation Spring Forward over the next two weeks. (CBC.ca)

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NORAD launches training exercise in Canada’s North

4 April 2014 CBC News 0 Comments Labrador, military, Nuanvut, NWT, Operation Spring Forward

It may soon be possible to spot CF-18 Hornet fighter aircraft, CC-130T Hercules and CC-150T Polaris air-to-air refuelling aircraft in

An iceberg melts off the coast of Ammasalik, Greenland. (The Associated Press)

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Greenland seeks Canadian culprit for broken undersea telecom cable

13 March 2014 CBC News 0 Comments communications, Denmark, Fisheries and Oceans Canada, fishing, Labrador

Greenland’s largest telecom company has filed a lawsuit in a federal court in Halifax, trying to force Fisheries and Oceans

À l’extrémité nord de la côte du Labrador se trouve une chaîne de hautes montagnes arides aux précipices abrupts qui s’enfonce dans les terres depuis la mer et que les Inuits d’autrefois considéraient comme la demeure de l’esprit suprême de leur mythologie. Le nom qu’ils donnaient à cette région, Torngait, signifie « lieu habité par les esprits » et s’explique par la présence de Torngarsoak, qu’ils croyaient maîtriser la vie des animaux marins et qu’ils représentaient sous la forme d’un ours polaire gigantesque. (Citation est tirée de GSC Memoir 91 : The Labrador Eskimo d’Ernest W. Hawkes, anthropologue qui a visité le Labrador en 1914 dans le cadre d’une expédition de la Commission géologique du Canada.)

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Polar bear injures hiker in Canadian park

26 July 2013 CBC News 0 Comments hiking, Labrador, Nunatsiavut, recreation

A hiker who was injured by a polar bear in a remote national park in northern Labrador has been flown