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Video game adapted to promote youth mental health for Inuit in Canada

Lynn Desjardins, Radio Canada International
Posted: Friday, April 26, 2019 at 15:22 — Last Updated: Friday, April 26, 2019 at 15:25
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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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Canada Culture Culture (Canada) General News 

Eye on the Arctic report Death in the Arctic recognized at Dart Awards in U.S.

Eye on the Arctic
Posted: Monday, April 8, 2019 at 15:29 — Last Updated: Tuesday, April 13, 2021 at 12:39
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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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Canada General News Society Society (Canada) 

Mayor in Arctic Canada requests help as alcohol seeps into restricted community

Sara Frizzell, CBC News
Posted: Thursday, January 31, 2019 at 13:46
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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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Canada General News Society Society (Canada) 

‘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) 

Community in Arctic Canada holds suicide prevention meetings following deaths

Alex Brockman, CBC News
Posted: Wednesday, January 23, 2019 at 14:01 — Last Updated: Tuesday, April 13, 2021 at 12:36
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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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Canada General News Politics Politics (Canada) 

Petition to get suicide crisis declared in Arctic Quebec breaks 50,000 signatures

CBC News
Posted: Monday, January 21, 2019 at 09:15 — Last Updated: Tuesday, April 13, 2021 at 12:36
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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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General News Society Society (USA) USA 

Alaska’s suicide rates jump 13 percent, report shows

Zachariah Hughes, Alaska Public Media
Posted: Thursday, January 3, 2019 at 11:33
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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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General News Society Society (USA) USA 

Envisioning recovery and rebuilding a life in the Alaskan Arctic

Anne Hillman, Alaska Public Media
Posted: Tuesday, January 1, 2019 at 12:00 — Last Updated: Wednesday, January 2, 2019 at 10:11
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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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Finland General News Society Society (Finland) 

Northerners cope in different ways with prolonged winter darkness

Yle News
Posted: Tuesday, December 4, 2018 at 14:43 — Last Updated: Friday, December 7, 2018 at 13:21
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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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Canada General News Politics Politics (Canada) 

Inuk woman sheds light on dramatic impact of poor services in Arctic Quebec

Catou MacKinnon, CBC News
Posted: Wednesday, November 14, 2018 at 16:01 — Last Updated: Thursday, November 15, 2018 at 09:14
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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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Canada General Society Society (Canada) 

Young Inuit leaders in northern Quebec optimistic about future, despite bleak suicide stats

Elias Abboud, CBC News
Posted: Thursday, November 1, 2018 at 09:32
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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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Canada General News Society Society (Canada) 

Quebec’s northern Inuit region looks for solution to suicide crisis

Elias Abboud, CBC News
Posted: Wednesday, October 31, 2018 at 10:05
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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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Canada General News Society Society (Canada) 

Jordin Tootoo, NHL’s first Inuk player, looks back on career and path to sobriety

CBC News
Posted: Thursday, October 25, 2018 at 14:01 — Last Updated: Thursday, October 25, 2018 at 14:42
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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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Canada General News Politics Politics (Canada) 

Quebec Inuit leaders plead for mental health support in wake of youth suicides

Jaela Bernstien, CBC News
Posted: Friday, October 19, 2018 at 15:50
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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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Canada General News Society Society (Canada) 

School board serving Quebec’s Inuit territory calls emergency meeting in wake of youth suicides

CBC News
Posted: Wednesday, October 17, 2018 at 13:13
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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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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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