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Disability rates highest for Inuit outside of traditional homeland, lowest in Nunavik, says Statistics Canada study

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic @arctic_eq
Posted: Thursday, December 12, 2019 at 17:35 — Last Updated: Tuesday, December 17, 2019 at 14:15
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A new study from Statistics Canada looking at disability rates amongst First Nations, Métis and Inuit has found that disability

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Canada General Politics Politics (Canada) 

An open door to reconciliation: inside Ottawa’s new Indigenous Peoples building

Olivia Stefanovich, CBC News
Posted: Wednesday, November 20, 2019 at 12:00
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Inside the ornate former U.S. embassy across from the Parliament Buildings in Ottawa, a set of plain tools sits in

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Canada General Politics Politics (Canada) 

Caroline Cochrane elected premier of Canada’s Northwest Territories

John Last and Sidney Cohen, CBC News
Posted: Thursday, October 24, 2019 at 15:09 — Last Updated: Friday, October 25, 2019 at 13:30
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Caroline Cochrane, MLA for Yellowknife’s Range Lake district, has been elected premier of the Northwest Territories, in Northern Canada. Cochrane

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Canada General Politics Politics (Canada) 

Missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls: What Canada’s parties are promising

Rhiannon Johnson, CBC News
Posted: Thursday, October 17, 2019 at 14:02 — Last Updated: Thursday, October 17, 2019 at 16:09
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Little time has been spent on the issue of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls so far in Canada’s

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Canada General Politics Politics (Canada) 

Ottawa seeks judicial review in decision to compensate First Nations kids

Olivia Stefanovich, CBC News
Posted: Friday, October 4, 2019 at 13:34 — Last Updated: Friday, October 4, 2019 at 15:46
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Canada’s Liberal government led by Justin Trudeau is challenging a landmark human rights ruling to compensate apprehended First Nations children

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Canada General Society Society (Canada) 

Inuit focus in violence inquiry important for Arctic Canada, conference hears

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic @arctic_eq
Posted: Thursday, October 3, 2019 at 17:09 — Last Updated: Friday, October 4, 2019 at 12:04
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Canada’s landmark inquiry into violence against Indigenous women was a wake-up call for the nation and continues to have important

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Canada General Society Society (Canada) 

Indigenous children who died in residential school commemorated in Quebec

Jamie Pashagumskum, CBC News
Posted: Wednesday, October 2, 2019 at 15:59 — Last Updated: Tuesday, April 13, 2021 at 13:05
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A moving and sombre ceremony held Monday at the Canadian Museum of History in Gatineau, Que., near Ottawa, included the

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Canada General Politics Politics (Canada) 

Violence against Indigenous women in Canada: final report altered to fix error

Evan Dyer, CBC News
Posted: Tuesday, September 3, 2019 at 11:45 — Last Updated: Tuesday, September 3, 2019 at 11:49
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The MMIWG national inquiry overstated in its final report the percentage of Canadian homicide victims who are Indigenous women and

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Canada General Politics Politics (Canada) 

Violence against Indigenous women: Northwest Territories gov not yet committing to recommendations

Sidney Cohen, CBC News
Posted: Tuesday, August 27, 2019 at 14:08
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The N.W.T. government is not yet committing to act on all the recommendations from the inquiry into missing and murdered

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Canada General Politics Politics (Canada) 

Dene, Métis end self-government talks in Canada’s Northwest Territories

John Last, CBC North
Posted: Thursday, August 22, 2019 at 11:42
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Three land claim organizations in Tulita, N.W.T., have “unanimously” decided to end self-government negotiations with the federal government, according to

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Canada General Society Society (Canada) 

New Canadian cancer strategy has focus on Inuit, First Nations and Métis people

Marc Winkler, CBC News
Posted: Thursday, June 13, 2019 at 09:41
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The Canadian Partnership against Cancer has released its latest 10-year strategy and it includes a special focus on Inuit, First

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Canada General Politics Politics (Canada) 

Canadian PM says deaths and disappearances of Indigenous women and girls amount to ‘genocide’

Catharine Tunney, CBC News
Posted: Tuesday, June 4, 2019 at 14:08
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Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says his government accepts that the murders and disappearances of Indigenous women and girls across

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Canada General Society Society (Canada) 

Violence & Indigenous women in Canada: Support available for family members reading inquiry’s final report

CBC News
Posted: Tuesday, June 4, 2019 at 09:55 — Last Updated: Tuesday, June 4, 2019 at 14:14
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Aftercare should not be an afterthought. That’s the message a network of support workers from across the country is sending

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Canada General Politics Politics (Canada) 

Report on violence against Indigenous women a ‘wake-up call’ for Canada, says Pauktuutit president

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic @arctic_eq
Posted: Monday, June 3, 2019 at 16:21 — Last Updated: Friday, June 7, 2019 at 14:35
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The final report on violence against Indigenous woman in Canada should serve as a wake-up call for the country, but 

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Canada General Politics Politics (Canada) 

Canada’s inquiry into missing and murdered Indigenous women issues final report with sweeping calls for change

John Paul Tasker, CBC News
Posted: Monday, June 3, 2019 at 13:17 — Last Updated: Tuesday, June 4, 2019 at 09:58
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After more than three years, dozens of community meetings and testimony from well over 2,000 Canadians, the missing and murdered

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The Parliament of Canada is the federal legislature of Canada, seated at Parliament Hill in Ottawa, and is composed of three parts: the Monarch, the Senate, and the House of Commons. Photo: La Presse canadienne / Adrian Wyld

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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