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Indigenous children who died in residential school commemorated in Quebec

2 October 2019 15 h 59 min Jamie Pashagumskum, CBC News 0 Comments Canadian Museum of History, First Nations, Gatineau, indigenous, Inuit, Metis, quebec, reconciliation, residential schools

A moving and sombre ceremony held Monday at the Canadian Museum of History in Gatineau, Que., near Ottawa, included the

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Premier François Legault apologizes for Quebec’s treatment of Indigenous peoples

2 October 2019 12 h 05 min Levon Sevunts, Radio Canada International 0 Comments First Nations, François Legault, indigenous, Inuit, quebec, Viens Commission

Quebec Premier François Legault apologized to the Canadian province’s Indigenous and Inuit inhabitants Wednesday, saying successive provincial governments have failed

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Quebec’s Inuit organisations welcome Viens commission’s report and call for immediate action

1 October 2019 16 h 33 min — 2 October 2019 11 h 11 min Mathiew Leiser, Eye on the Arctic 0 Comments Inidigenous, Inuit, Kativik, KRG, Mikivik, Nunavik, quebec, report, Viens Commission

Makivik Corporation, the Inuit land claims organization that represents Quebec Inuit, welcomes the conclusions of a report into the treatment

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Inuit of northern Quebec are victims of systemic discrimination, concludes public inquiry report

30 September 2019 18 h 33 min Mathiew Leiser, Eye on the Arctic 0 Comments indigenous, Inuit, public inquiry, quebec, report, Viens Commission

New housing in northern Quebec, support for homeless Inuit in urban areas and improvement of their detention conditions are among

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Quebec should apologize for systemic discrimination in treatment of Indigenous people, Viens report says

30 September 2019 10 h 35 min — 30 September 2019 14 h 02 min Benjamin Shingler and Kamila Hinkson, CBC News 0 Comments First Nations, indigenous, Inuit, Nunavik, police, quebec, racism, Viens Commission

The Quebec government should apologize to First Nations and Inuit for the harm they have endured as a result of

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Canadian Indigenous broadcaster launches French-language national news program

27 August 2019 14 h 32 min — 27 August 2019 14 h 40 min Susan Bell, CBC News 0 Comments APTN, First Nations, indigenous, journalism, media, quebec, Télévision

The Aboriginal Peoples Television Network (APTN) has launched a weekly national newscast in French, with a host hailing from the

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Young Nunavik leaders bring stories of hope, loss to youth forum in southern Quebec

19 August 2019 12 h 11 min — 19 August 2019 14 h 32 min Spencer Van Dyk, CBC News 0 Comments indigenous, Inuit, mental health, Nunavik, quebec, Sherbrooke, Suicide

Victoria Tarqiapik went to Sherbrooke, southeastern Quebec, with a message: something needs to be done to fix the suicide crisis

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New addictions centre in Northern Quebec to focus on treating whole family

13 August 2019 14 h 50 min Sara Frizzell, CBC News 0 Comments alcohol, drugs, health, indigenous, Inuit, Isuarsivik, Nunavik, quebec, substance abuse

The Isuarsivik Regional Recovery Centre is breaking ground on a new addictions treatment centre in Nunavik this month. The official

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Judge ignored Indigenous sentencing report while giving Inuk man open-ended sentence, appeals court rules

8 August 2019 11 h 30 min Elias Abboud, CBC News 0 Comments crime, Gladue, indigenous, Inuit, justice, legal, quebec

A trial judge unfairly ignored an Inuk man’s abusive and violent upbringing when slapping him with an indeterminate prison sentence

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Police force in Northern Quebec faces officer shortage

9 July 2019 10 h 14 min CBC News 0 Comments indigenous, Inuit, Kativik Regional Police Force, Nunavik, police, quebec

The Kativik Regional Police Force (KRPF) is facing a staff shortage after losing more than a dozen officers over the

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Canada: Violence against Indigenous women, girls in Quebec often neglected, national inquiry says

3 June 2019 14 h 07 min — 4 June 2019 11 h 42 min CBC News 0 Comments First Nations, indigenous, Indigenous women, Inuit, MMIWG, National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls, quebec, women

The national inquiry into missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls has released a separate report about violence in Quebec,

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Canada: Indigenous, LGBTQ people disproportionately homeless, Quebec survey finds

26 March 2019 10 h 45 min Benjamin Shingler, CBC News 0 Comments First Nations, homelessness, indigenous, Inuit, Metis, Montreal, quebec

Immigrants, Indigenous people and members of the LGBTQ community are disproportionately represented among Quebec’s homeless population, according to the first-ever