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Day after nurse sit-in in western Nunavik, union denounces employer actions

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic @arctic_eq
Posted: Friday, January 20, 2023 at 15:36 — Last Updated: Monday, January 23, 2023 at 08:54
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The day after a sit-in by nurses in the western part of northern Quebec, their union is denouncing the employer

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Yukon government offers cash bonuses to attract and keep nurses

CBC News
Posted: Monday, December 5, 2022 at 15:57
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‘An awful lot of other people deserve and should get something like this as well,’ union says The Yukon government

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Nunavik: Demands for health network to be put under trusteeship

Julie Marceau, Radio-Canada @julie_marceau
Posted: Thursday, November 17, 2022 at 18:23 — Last Updated: Monday, November 21, 2022 at 08:24
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“We’re not sinking: we’re sunk.” A worker shortage, coupled with poor management of the Nunavik health care system, is creating

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Yukon nursing vacancies ‘very serious’ amid ongoing countrywide nursing shortage

CBC News
Posted: Friday, October 28, 2022 at 15:48
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Health Minister Tracy-Anne McPhee revealed that the vacancy rate in community nursing is currently over 40% The Yukon is experiencing

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Election Spotlight—Health Care in Nunavik

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic @arctic_eq
Posted: Saturday, September 24, 2022 at 12:18 — Last Updated: Monday, September 26, 2022 at 11:20
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It was a crisis that made headlines across the country this summer—a health-care worker shortage so acute in Nunavik that

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Nurses decry ‘unsustainable’ conditions at hospital in Canada’s Northwest Territories

Natalie Pressman, CBC News @natpressman
Posted: Tuesday, September 6, 2022 at 08:49
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Operating rooms staffed with fewer than half the nurses that should be working, according to union Nurses in the Northwest

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On the frontlines of health care : A Nunavik, Canada nurse remembers relocation, racism and the rewards of healing

CBC Radio
Posted: Monday, October 19, 2020 at 09:34
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The first time Minnie Akparook saw and heard a plane, she started running. “My sealskin boots fell off. I was

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Northern nurse receives award for service in Arctic Canada

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic @arctic_eq
Posted: Tuesday, May 8, 2018 at 15:19
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A nurse working in Nunavik, the Inuit region of northern Quebec, was among three recipients who received awards on Monday

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Blog: Telehealth in the Arctic – Unfulfilled potential

Heather Exner-Pirot
Posted: Thursday, June 11, 2015 at 19:58 — Last Updated: Friday, June 12, 2015 at 19:57
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Telehealth is going mainstream. That was the message from a pair of recent stories in Wired magazine, an InTouch Health

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