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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First Nation bans Indigenous harvest of declining caribou herd in northern Quebec
The Cree Nation Government has voted in favour of a ban on Cree hunters harvesting caribou from the George River
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Quebec wildlife officers seize caribou intended as gift to northern First Nation
Wildlife officials in Quebec have seized a caribou that was intended to be given as a gift between Indigenous governments
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Language barrier in northern Quebec can make court baffling for Inuit, justice workers say
For Inuit in Quebec accused of breaking the law, the first of many barriers to equal treatment in the justice
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Arctic Quebec: Inuk woman’s botulism symptoms not taken seriously by nurse, widower says
A man from Inukjuak said the failure of a nurse stationed in the Arctic Quebec community to recognize the signs
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