Petition to get suicide crisis declared in Arctic Quebec breaks 50,000 signatures
Long-time Inuit advocate Mary Simon has started a campaign to get the number of deaths by suicide in Nunavik recognized
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Alaska’s suicide rates jump 13 percent, report shows
A new report by state public health officials shows an increase in the number of suicides across Alaska. Researchers also looked into
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Envisioning recovery and rebuilding a life in the Alaskan Arctic
Karen Mitchell is the Behavioral Health Aide in Noatak, a small village in the Northwest Arctic. Twenty-five years ago, as
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Northerners cope in different ways with prolonged winter darkness
Ten days ago, on 24 November, the sun rose above the horizon for the last time in Utsjoki, Finland’s northernmost
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Inuk woman sheds light on dramatic impact of poor services in Arctic Quebec
Lucy Kumarluk breaks down when she thinks about her son, his life on the streets in Montreal and the brother
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Young Inuit leaders in northern Quebec optimistic about future, despite bleak suicide stats
Lucasi Iyaituk wants to be mayor of his home community Puvirnituq one day. The 18-year-old says it with a smile.
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Quebec’s northern Inuit region looks for solution to suicide crisis
As people in Kuujjuaq prepared to bury two young people Tuesday — the latest victims of apparent suicides — the
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Jordin Tootoo, NHL’s first Inuk player, looks back on career and path to sobriety
Announcing his retirement from professional hockey in Brandon, Manitoba (Canadian Prairies), on Friday was like “coming full circle” for Jordin
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Quebec Inuit leaders plead for mental health support in wake of youth suicides
In Nunavik, Quebec’s expansive northern region dotted by remote fly-in Inuit villages, most residents are connected to at least one,
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School board serving Quebec’s Inuit territory calls emergency meeting in wake of youth suicides
Kativik Ilisarniliriniq, the school board serving Quebec’s Inuit territory of Nunavik, has called an emergency meeting at the end of
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Alaska’s state-run psychiatric hospital unsafe for workers, report concludes
Alaska’s only state-run psychiatric hospital is an unsafe place to work. That’s the finding of a report by an independent
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Canadian Inuit say ‘urgency’ needed in child welfare changes
Child welfare changes and suicide prevention were among the topics discussed this past week by delegates at Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami’s
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Former Canadian Mountie sues after developing PTSD while policing in the North
A former Mountie is suing the federal government, a doctor and a psychologist who worked for the Royal Canadian Mounted
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Indigenous Alaskans find strength in community and tradition
Ten-year-old August Seton sat in a small crowded community building in Hooper Bay (southwest Alaska) surrounded by people of all
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Alarming number of patients at Alaskan psychiatric emergency room
Emergency rooms in Anchorage hospitals cannot keep up with the numbers of patients needing psychiatric care. It’s a problem that’s
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