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Canada Countries Featured • Zone 3 General SOCIETY Society 

Indigenous leader named Northerner of the Year by Canadian magazine

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic
Posted: Monday, December 2, 2019 at 15:33
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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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Atlantic Canada: Inuit helping Innu community deal with suicide crisis

Jacob Barker, CBC News
Posted: Thursday, November 7, 2019 at 10:36
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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

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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Young Nunavik leaders bring stories of hope, loss to youth forum in southern Quebec

Spencer Van Dyk, CBC News
Posted: Monday, August 19, 2019 at 12:11 — Last Updated: Thursday, October 31, 2019 at 10:07
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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

Emily Blake, CBC News
Posted: Wednesday, July 31, 2019 at 12:31
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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

Jessica Deer, CBC News
Posted: Monday, June 17, 2019 at 14:17 — Last Updated: Monday, June 17, 2019 at 15:31
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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

Alex Brockman, CBC News
Posted: Wednesday, March 20, 2019 at 09:48 — Last Updated: Wednesday, March 20, 2019 at 10:37
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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

Jacob Barker, CBC News
Posted: Friday, January 25, 2019 at 13:07 — Last Updated: Friday, January 25, 2019 at 15:03
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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

Alex Brockman, CBC News
Posted: Wednesday, January 23, 2019 at 14:01 — Last Updated: Wednesday, January 23, 2019 at 14:10
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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

CBC News
Posted: Monday, January 21, 2019 at 09:15 — Last Updated: Friday, January 25, 2019 at 15:41
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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

Zachariah Hughes, Alaska Public Media
Posted: Thursday, January 3, 2019 at 11:33
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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

Elias Abboud, CBC News
Posted: Thursday, November 1, 2018 at 09:32
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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

Elias Abboud, CBC News
Posted: Wednesday, October 31, 2018 at 10:05
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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

Elias Abboud, CBC News
Posted: Tuesday, October 30, 2018 at 11:37
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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

CBC News
Posted: Thursday, October 25, 2018 at 14:01 — Last Updated: Thursday, October 25, 2018 at 14:42
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Announcing his retirement from professional hockey in Brandon, Manitoba (Canadian Prairies), on Friday was like “coming full circle” for Jordin

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