Lack of village police leads to hiring cops with criminal records in Alaska: Anchorage Daily News
In some parts of Alaska, local governments are so desperate for law enforcement they’ve had to hire people with criminal
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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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Nunavik gun-owners will have support to comply with registration legislation, says provincial rep for Arctic Quebec
Gun owners in Nunavik, the Inuit region of Quebec, will receive the support necessary to comply with the province’s gun
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Inuit org wants working group with Quebec gov on firearms legislation
Makivik Corporation, the land claims organization that represents the political interests of Quebec Inuit, wants to revisit Quebec’s firearms legislation
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New community justice centre opens in Inuit region of Arctic Quebec
A new community justice centre has been set up in Nunavik, the Inuit region of northern Quebec, and was officially
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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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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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Citizens’ initiative prompts Finnish lawmakers to consider microplastics ban
A citizens’ initiative proposing that Finland ban the importation, production and sale of cosmetics containing microplastics has received the 50,000
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Russia’s military lead on Arctic shelf mapping stands trial for fraud
The top official from the Ministry of Defense reportedly stole 90 million rubles earmarked mapping of the Russian Arctic shelf.
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Alaskans set stakes on Senator Murkowski for U.S. Supreme Court nomination
Lisa Murkowski isn’t ready to say yet how she’ll vote on President Trump’s latest Supreme Court nominee, Brett Kavanaugh. The
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New farm bill program aims to fight food insecurity in Alaska
Around one in eight Alaskans have wondered at some point in the last year where their next meal will come
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Beluga tour operators in Northern Canada decry new rules protecting marine mammals
Tour operators in the northern town of Churchill, in the Canadian province of Manitoba, say new government rules to protect
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Why does an Alaska Congressman want to change America’s beloved fisheries law?
The U.S. House of representatives on Wednesday passed a revision of the Magnuson Stevens Act sponsored by Alaska Congressman Don
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Will Alaskan Senator Murkowski block Trump’s U.S. Supreme Court nominee?
On Monday night, just after President Trump announced his nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, an abortion-rights
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