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Why are the tuberculosis rates in the Canadian Arctic 290 times those in the rest of the country?

8 March 20198 March 2019 Stephanie Hogan, CBC News 0 Comments disease, health, Inuit, Justin Trudeau, Sixties Scoop, tuberculosis

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau today apologized in Iqaluit, Nunavut for the way the Canadian government treated Inuit patients with tuberculosis

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Ottawa reaches ‘agreement in principle’ with Indigenous victims of Sixties Scoop

6 October 201710 October 2017 Levon Sevunts, Radio Canada International 0 Comments agreement in principle, Canada, Indigenous communities, reconciliation, Sixties Scoop

The Canadian government has reached an agreement in principle to pay hundreds of millions of dollars in compensation to thousands

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Ontario court sides with Indigenous survivors of Sixties Scoop

14 February 201714 February 2017 Levon Sevunts, Radio Canada International 0 Comments Aboriginal culture, Canada, Indigenous communities, Ontario court, Sixties Scoop

Canada failed in its obligations to thousands of Aboriginal children who were taken away from their parents and placed with non-Indigenous

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