Indigenous leader named Northerner of the Year by Canadian magazine
Dana Tizya-Tramm, chief of the Vuntut Gwitchin First Nation in Canada’s northwestern Arctic, has been named Notherner of the Year
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Suicide
Atlantic Canada: Inuit helping Innu community deal with suicide crisis
As support workers continue around-the-clock support to help people in Sheshatshiu deal with the community’s suicide crisis, the effort has
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Northern Canada: New health centre in Cape Dorset could hold those on suicide watch, inquest hears
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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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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Help line issues in Canada’s Northwest Territories raising concerns
Northwest Territories residents are flagging issues with a territorial help line meant to aid people in crisis. Several people, who
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Inuk student biking across Canada to raise awareness of suicide crisis among Inuit youth
After a wave of youth suicides in Nunavik, the Inuit region of Northern Quebec, last fall, Inuk student Hannah Tooktoo
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Federal budget promises $700M for Canada’s North over next decade
The federal government has promised to spend $700 million over the next 10 years for Canada’s North, with money coming
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‘If he can do it, we can do it’: retired NHL star Jordin Tootoo visits community in Atlantic Canada
The crowds came out to see retired NHL star Jordin Tootoo in two completely contrasting events in Sheshatshiu, Labrador on
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Community in Arctic Canada holds suicide prevention meetings following deaths
Officials with Nunavut’s Health Department are in Baker Lake this week for a series of suicide prevention meetings, following three
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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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Alaska’s suicide rates jump 13 percent, report shows
A new report by state public health officials shows an increase in the number of suicides across Alaska. Researchers also looked into
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Young Inuit leaders in northern Quebec optimistic about future, despite bleak suicide stats
Lucasi Iyaituk wants to be mayor of his home community Puvirnituq one day. The 18-year-old says it with a smile.
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Quebec’s northern Inuit region looks for solution to suicide crisis
As people in Kuujjuaq prepared to bury two young people Tuesday — the latest victims of apparent suicides — the
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Emergency meetings begin as Quebec’s Inuit region grapples with string of suicides
As winter approaches in Quebec’s Arctic region, the sun doesn’t rise very high in the crisp, blue sky. It hangs
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Jordin Tootoo, NHL’s first Inuk player, looks back on career and path to sobriety
Announcing his retirement from professional hockey in Brandon, Manitoba (Canadian Prairies), on Friday was like “coming full circle” for Jordin
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