Inuit of northern Quebec are victims of systemic discrimination, concludes public inquiry report
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Immigrants, Indigenous people and members of the LGBTQ community are disproportionately represented among Quebec’s homeless population, according to the first-ever
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Career criminal was snatching eggs from rare birds around the world – including in Northern Quebec
When U.K. border officials nabbed 56-year-old smuggler Jeffrey Lendrum at Heathrow Airport in June, he was sporting an unseasonably heavy
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Petition to get suicide crisis declared in Arctic Quebec breaks 50,000 signatures
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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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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10 years sober: Indigenous woman in northern Quebec shares impacts of alcohol in video
Some of Carol-Ann Tanoush’s earliest memories of growing up in northern Quebec revolve around alcohol. “[It was] loud music, screaming
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Inuit in Atlantic Canada call for stop to George River caribou harvest
The government representing Inuit in the Atlantic Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador is calling for a hard stop to
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[SPECIAL REPORT] Death in the Arctic: A community grieves, a father fights for change
When Bernie Adams’ 19-year-old son Robert was stabbed to death in the Inuit village of Kangiqsujuaq, Quebec in March 2018,
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