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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Quebec Inuit leaders plead for mental health support in wake of youth suicides
In Nunavik, Quebec’s expansive northern region dotted by remote fly-in Inuit villages, most residents are connected to at least one,
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School board serving Quebec’s Inuit territory calls emergency meeting in wake of youth suicides
Kativik Ilisarniliriniq, the school board serving Quebec’s Inuit territory of Nunavik, has called an emergency meeting at the end of
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Canadian Inuit say ‘urgency’ needed in child welfare changes
Child welfare changes and suicide prevention were among the topics discussed this past week by delegates at Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami’s
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Indigenous Alaskans find strength in community and tradition
Ten-year-old August Seton sat in a small crowded community building in Hooper Bay (southwest Alaska) surrounded by people of all
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New online counselling chat service available for Canada’s Indigenous people
The government of Canada has launched an online counselling chat service specific to Indigenous people it said in a news
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How an Alaskan Indigenous community is healing through dance
About six years ago community members in Hooper Bay, Alaska worked together to revive a Yup’ik dance group for young
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Indigenous mental health funding sends important signal says Canadian Inuit leader
Canada’s national Inuit organization says the indigenous mental health funding announced this week is important not only for the resources it will provide,
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Suicide crisis grows at Ontario First Nation
A federal and provincial crisis team has flown to a northern Ontario First Nation that declared a state of emergency
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Arctic Council talks climate, COP21, suicide in North
An Arctic Council meeting wound up in Alaska on Friday with a focus on issues like climate adaptation, the marine environment and the suicide
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