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‘If he can do it, we can do it’: retired NHL star Jordin Tootoo visits community in Atlantic Canada

Jacob Barker, CBC News
Posted: Friday, January 25, 2019 at 13:07 — Last Updated: Friday, January 25, 2019 at 15:03
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The crowds came out to see retired NHL star Jordin Tootoo in two completely contrasting events in Sheshatshiu, Labrador on

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Canada General News Society Society (Canada) 

Constitutional challenge mounted for Indigenous man charged with illegal caribou hunting in Atlantic Canada

Jacob Barker, CBC News
Posted: Wednesday, January 16, 2019 at 12:12 — Last Updated: Wednesday, January 16, 2019 at 13:11
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Innu Nation hunters who are in provincial court in Labrador, Atlantic Canada this week are making a constitutional challenge against

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Canada 

Southern Inuit in Atlantic Canada renew call for hunters to refrain from George River caribou harvest

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic @arctic_eq
Posted: Monday, January 7, 2019 at 15:28 — Last Updated: Friday, January 11, 2019 at 12:55
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With animal numbers continuing to plummet, the council representing southern Inuit in the Canadian region of Labrador is continuing its

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Canada General News Politics Politics (Canada) 

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

Nick Murray, CBC News
Posted: Tuesday, December 11, 2018 at 10:55
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Diapers, macaroni, spaghetti, dried beans and frozen french fries are among the new items now going to be subsidized under

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Canada Environment Environment (Canada) General News 

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

Susan Bell and Betsy Longchap, CBC News
Posted: Friday, December 7, 2018 at 16:10 — Last Updated: Friday, December 7, 2018 at 16:16
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The Cree Nation Government has voted in favour of a ban on Cree hunters harvesting caribou from the George River

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Canada General News Society Society (Canada) 

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

CBC News
Posted: Wednesday, November 28, 2018 at 10:06 — Last Updated: Wednesday, November 28, 2018 at 10:09
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Wildlife officials in Quebec have seized a caribou that was intended to be given as a gift between Indigenous governments

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Canada Environment Environment (Canada) General News 

Ottawa considers listing Labrador caribou herds as at-risk species

CBC News
Posted: Friday, November 23, 2018 at 10:11 — Last Updated: Friday, November 23, 2018 at 11:25
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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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Canada General News Politics Politics (Canada) 

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

CBC News
Posted: Monday, October 29, 2018 at 16:07 — Last Updated: Monday, October 29, 2018 at 16:15
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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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Canada Culture Culture (Canada) General News 

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

Meagan Deuling, CBC News
Posted: Monday, October 29, 2018 at 10:38 — Last Updated: Friday, May 3, 2024 at 12:31
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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 Environment Environment (Canada) General News 

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

CBC News
Posted: Friday, September 21, 2018 at 16:34
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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 General News Politics Politics (Canada) 

Canada moves to recognize NunatuKavut Inuit community in Labrador

Levon Sevunts, Radio Canada International
Posted: Thursday, July 12, 2018 at 13:57 — Last Updated: Friday, July 13, 2018 at 08:35
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The NunatuKavut community in southern and central Labrador (Eastern Canada) is entering into talks with the federal government to negotiate

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Canada General News Society Society (Canada) 

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

Elizabeth McMillan, CBC News
Posted: Thursday, June 21, 2018 at 11:24 — Last Updated: Tuesday, June 26, 2018 at 10:16
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A former Mountie is suing the federal government, a doctor and a psychologist who worked for the Royal Canadian Mounted

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Canada Environment Environment (Canada) Politics Politics (Canada) 

Inuit traditional knowledge to guide marine management plan off Labrador coast

Levon Sevunts, Radio Canada International
Posted: Friday, September 29, 2017 at 15:34 — Last Updated: Friday, September 29, 2017 at 16:48
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The Inuit in northern Labrador and the federal government signed a deal Thursday evening that will see the Inuit use

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

Blog: Election results in Canada’s North

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic @arctic_eq
Posted: Tuesday, October 20, 2015 at 20:28 — Last Updated: Wednesday, October 21, 2015 at 15:36
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Canadians went to the polls on Monday, October 19 and elected a Liberal majority government for the first time since

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Canada Environment Environment (Canada) 

Caribou numbers plummet in eastern Canada

Lynn Desjardins, Radio Canada International
Posted: Tuesday, August 19, 2014 at 13:24
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Biologists are alarmed at the precipitous decline in the George River caribou population roaming the eastern provinces of Quebec, and

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Inuit push for land protection with focus on social economy

In Taloyoak, Nunavut, the northernmost hamlet on mainland Canada, Inuit are working to conserve their territory and set up a community-driven, land-based economy. Photo : Eilís Quinn

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