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Police in Northwestern Canada’s border territory can now ticket people who violate travel restrictions

CBC News
Posted: Friday, August 14, 2020 at 11:59
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Yukon RCMP can now ticket visitors who violate the territory’s coronavirus-related travel restrictions. In a news release on Thursday, police say

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Former officers from Canadian police reflect on how to fix policing in the North

John Last, CBC North
Posted: Monday, July 20, 2020 at 11:29
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Since the RCMP’s earliest days, it has relied on Indigenous people for survival. In the North, Canada’s project of extending

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Arctic Canada : Lawyer wants man in violent Kinngait arrest video to join his class action

Katie Toth, CBC News
Posted: Friday, June 12, 2020 at 10:56
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A lawyer is trying to get in touch with the Kinngait man who, earlier this month, was captured on video

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Violence by Canadian federal police against Inuit: few are stopping systemic racism, Indigenous leaders say

Thomas Rohner, CBC News
Posted: Wednesday, June 10, 2020 at 14:10
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To address the systemic racism against Indigenous people shown by police forces such as the RCMP, Canadian leaders need to look

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Burnout amongst Canada’s federal police may contribute to Nunavut policing problems, says top cop

The Canadian Press
Posted: Tuesday, June 9, 2020 at 14:36 — Last Updated: Tuesday, June 9, 2020 at 15:33
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The head of the RCMP in Nunavut says she’s trying to find ways to bring police and Inuit together. But

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Nunavut leaders call for systematic review of Canada’s federal police

Thomas Rohner, CBC News
Posted: Tuesday, June 9, 2020 at 12:54 — Last Updated: Tuesday, June 9, 2020 at 18:08
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A growing number of Nunavut leaders are calling for a territory-wide systemic review of the federal Royal Canadian Mounted Police

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Inuit women in Canada’s Arctic suffer ‘unnecessary violence’ from police, legal aid board says

Thomas Rohner, CBC News
Posted: Monday, June 8, 2020 at 13:41
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WARNING: Details in this story may be disturbing to some readers. Inuit in Nunavut, especially women, suffer systemic police abuse,

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Man in violent Canadian Arctic arrest video wants officer charged, minister says he’s ‘outraged’

Beth Brown, CBC News
Posted: Friday, June 5, 2020 at 14:12
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The federal Indigenous Services minister says he’s “outraged” and “pissed” by the continuing pattern of police violence against Indigenous people

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Man in violent arrest video in Canadian Arctic later ‘viciously attacked’ while in police cells

John Van Dusen, CBC News
Posted: Thursday, June 4, 2020 at 16:15 — Last Updated: Friday, June 5, 2020 at 13:28
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UPDATED – Nunavut RCMP say they will conduct a review of an attack against an Inuk man from Kinngait, Nunavut,

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Damp shelter in Arctic Canadian city of Iqaluit expected to reopen in mid-January

Jackie McKay, CBC News
Posted: Wednesday, January 1, 2020 at 02:42
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Iqaluit’s damp shelter will reopen later on this month, thanks to a new agreement with the Uquutaq Society. The non-profit

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Northern Canada: New health centre in Cape Dorset could hold those on suicide watch, inquest hears

Sara Frizzell, CBC News
Posted: Thursday, October 31, 2019 at 10:11
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Cape Dorset’s new health centre will be the first in Canada’s eastern Arctic territory of Nunavut to have a room

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Class action alleging discrimination by RCMP in Canada’s North growing, says lawyer

Richard Gleeson, CBC News
Posted: Monday, September 16, 2019 at 10:54
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There is steady interest in joining a $600 million class action lawsuit claiming RCMP discrimination against Indigenous people in Canada’s

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Former officers call on leaders of Canada’s federal police to do more to recruit Inuit

Kieran Oudshoorn, CBC News
Posted: Wednesday, September 11, 2019 at 13:49 — Last Updated: Thursday, September 12, 2019 at 11:12
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Former Inuit RCMP members are calling on top brass of the national police force to invest time and resources into

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Canada’s federal police launches recruitment program aimed at Nunavut Inuit

CBC News
Posted: Thursday, August 15, 2019 at 13:39
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RCMP’s V Division wants Nunavut Inuit to join the police force. The Mounties, Canada’s federal police, have partnered with Makigiaqta

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Police to meet hamlet officials after eased liquor rules spawn protest in Arctic Canadian community

CBC News
Posted: Friday, July 26, 2019 at 12:38 — Last Updated: Friday, July 26, 2019 at 12:46
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Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) in Nunavut, Arctic Canada say they are planning to meet with Kugluktuk’s mayor and senior

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