Indigenous people flood Quebec’s police watchdog with complaints about misconduct
CBC News has learned that more than half of all allegations of police misconduct brought to Quebec’s Bureau of Independent
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GPS jamming jeopardizing public safety in Arctic Norway
Both police and rescue services in Northern Norway are deeply worried as GPS signals are interrupted. Public safety and life
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Indigenous man launches $600M class-action lawsuit, claiming police mistreatment in Canada’s northern territories
A teen in Tuktoyaktuk, Northwest Territories (N.W.T.), has launched a $600-million, class-action lawsuit against Canada’s federal police, the RCMP, in
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Commission hears about strained relations between Quebec’s Inuit and northern police force
The fractured relationship between Inuit and police in Arctic Quebec is reflected in Johnny Anautak’s tears, anger and disappointment. His
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Alaska reckons with missing data on murdered Indigenous women
Indigenous women and girls are murdered or disappear from American cities in alarming numbers. But no one knows the true
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Canadian government to spend 90 million on police stations in Indigenous communities
The Canadian government will spend nearly $90 million to build and repair police stations in First Nation and Inuit communities.
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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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Norway releases Russian man detained over suspicion of espionage
Mikhail Bochkarev, the Russian state official who has been in a Norwegian jail for almost a month, has gone home
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MLA to ask for review of police oversight in Nunavut, Arctic Canada
Nunavut MLA Adam Arreak Lightstone said he will be asking the territory’s Department of Justice to review how police oversight
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Policing infrastructure rejig in Canada’s northwestern Yukon territory
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) and the Government of Yukon announced new plans this week for policing infrastructure in
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Canada’s crime rates and severity highest in northern territories
Across the North, all three of Canada’s territories had the highest crime rates and crime severity in the country last
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Alaska’s drug problem worsening as police resources strained
On Wednesday, the State Troopers put out their most recent data on illegal drugs trafficking through Alaska. The annual drug
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Somebody broke into an Arctic Canadian village’s power plant and shut off the electricity
Canada’s federal police, the RCMP, are looking for whoever broke into a power plant in Kugluktuk, Nunavut, on Monday and
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Alaska’s crime rates are soaring, stats show
Across Alaska, crime is up. That’s according to data released today by the Department of Public Safety comparing 2017 to
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Police in Arctic Finland overstretched, says retiring officer
After 41 years on the force, retiring deputy head of the Lapland Police Department Seppo Kinnunen is worried how his
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