Issues affecting circumpolar nations
The number of children and young people who were hospitalised for mental health disorders in Canada’s Northwest Territories (N.W.T.) has
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Young people in Canada’s northern territory of Nunavut helped adapt a video game designed to help users cope with depression
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Eye on the Arctic has received an honourable mention from the 25th annual Dart Awards for Excellence in Coverage of
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The mayor of Arctic Bay, Nunavut has written a letter to politicians asking for mental health staff for the community
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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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Officials with Nunavut’s Health Department are in Baker Lake this week for a series of suicide prevention meetings, following three
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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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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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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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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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Lucy Kumarluk breaks down when she thinks about her son, his life on the streets in Montreal and the brother
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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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As people in Kuujjuaq prepared to bury two young people Tuesday — the latest victims of apparent suicides — the
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Announcing his retirement from professional hockey in Brandon, Manitoba (Canadian Prairies), on Friday was like “coming full circle” for Jordin
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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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