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US Senate passes bill with funds for missing and murdered Indigenous women

Liz Ruskin, Alaska Public Media
Posted: Tuesday, November 5, 2019 at 09:06 — Last Updated: Tuesday, November 5, 2019 at 14:46
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WASHINGTON – The U.S. Senate last week agreed to spend $6.5 million to tackle the epidemic of missing and murdered

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Caroline Cochrane elected premier of Canada’s Northwest Territories

John Last and Sidney Cohen, CBC News
Posted: Thursday, October 24, 2019 at 15:09 — Last Updated: Friday, October 25, 2019 at 13:30
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Caroline Cochrane, MLA for Yellowknife’s Range Lake district, has been elected premier of the Northwest Territories, in Northern Canada. Cochrane

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Canada Countries Featured Featured • Zone 1 General Politics POLITICS 

Missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls: What Canada’s parties are promising

Rhiannon Johnson, CBC News
Posted: Thursday, October 17, 2019 at 14:02 — Last Updated: Thursday, October 17, 2019 at 16:09
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Little time has been spent on the issue of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls so far in Canada’s

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Canada Countries Featured Featured • Zone 1 General SOCIETY Society 

Offender in Northern Canada wins appeal, overturns banishment from his community

Beth Brown, CBC News
Posted: Thursday, October 10, 2019 at 10:35
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A Nunavut, Northern Canada man convicted of sexual assault and breaking and entering is no longer going to be banished

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Canada Countries General Politics POLITICS 

Record number of women elected in Northwest Territories, Northern Canada

CBC News
Posted: Wednesday, October 2, 2019 at 10:37 — Last Updated: Wednesday, October 2, 2019 at 15:43
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A record number of women have been elected to the Northwest Territories 19th Legislative Assembly — making it the jurisdiction

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Canada Countries Featured Featured • Zone 2 General Highlights Politics POLITICS 

Arctic Canada: Yukon women weigh in on sexism in politics

CBC News
Posted: Monday, September 16, 2019 at 15:34 — Last Updated: Monday, September 16, 2019 at 16:34
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Senator Pat Duncan has no trouble recalling how she was sometimes belittled as the first female premier in Yukon, Arctic

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Countries Featured Featured • Zone 3 General Highlights POLITICS Politics Sweden 

Assessing Margot Wallström’s legacy as Swedish foreign minister

David Russell, Radio Sweden
Posted: Monday, September 16, 2019 at 13:31 — Last Updated: Tuesday, September 17, 2019 at 10:36
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Margot Wallström spent some five years as Sweden’s foreign minister and launched the world’s first feminist foreign policy before announcing

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Featured Featured • Zone 2 Finland General Highlights POLITICS Politics 

Women now lead most Finnish political parties

Yle News
Posted: Friday, September 13, 2019 at 10:07 — Last Updated: Friday, September 13, 2019 at 16:20
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When Finland’s Centre Party elected Katri Kulmuni as its new leader last weekend, Finnish political history turned a new page:

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Canada Countries Featured Featured • Zone 2 General Politics POLITICS 

Violence against Indigenous women in Canada: final report altered to fix error

Evan Dyer, CBC News
Posted: Tuesday, September 3, 2019 at 11:45 — Last Updated: Tuesday, September 3, 2019 at 11:49
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The MMIWG national inquiry overstated in its final report the percentage of Canadian homicide victims who are Indigenous women and

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Violence against Indigenous women: Northwest Territories gov not yet committing to recommendations

Sidney Cohen, CBC News
Posted: Tuesday, August 27, 2019 at 14:08
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The N.W.T. government is not yet committing to act on all the recommendations from the inquiry into missing and murdered

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Canada Countries Featured Featured • Zone 2 General SOCIETY Society 

Judge sends sex offender back to Arctic Canadian community despite lack of treatment

Richard Gleeson, CBC News
Posted: Tuesday, August 27, 2019 at 10:49 — Last Updated: Tuesday, August 27, 2019 at 11:02
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The Northwest Territories newest judge recently faced a challenge N.W.T. judges have been confronting for decades — what to do

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Canada Countries Featured • Zone 2 General Politics POLITICS 

Canadian gov grants $1M to promote women in northern politics

CBC News
Posted: Thursday, August 8, 2019 at 15:24 — Last Updated: Thursday, August 8, 2019 at 16:33
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The governments of the Northwest Territories and Nunavut, in Northern Canada, will receive more than $1 million from the federal

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Canada Countries General SOCIETY Society 

Canadian gov directs $1.8M to legal support for Nunavut’s women and children

CBC News
Posted: Tuesday, July 30, 2019 at 11:32
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The federal government gave three projects in Nunavut $1.8 million to educate residents on the legal protections that exist for

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Canada Countries Cyber Cyber-3 Featured Featured • Zone 2 General SOCIETY Society 

Levels of violence against young women in Northern Canada triple rest of country

Ryan Patrick Jones, CBC News
Posted: Friday, July 5, 2019 at 09:58 — Last Updated: Friday, July 5, 2019 at 15:02
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Young women and girls living in the northern parts of Canada are three times more likely to be victims of

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Canada Countries Featured Featured • Zone 3 General Politics POLITICS 

Gendered impacts of resource development should be studied, says inquiry into violence against Indigenous women in Canada

Avery Zingel, CBC News
Posted: Tuesday, July 2, 2019 at 12:00 — Last Updated: Friday, July 5, 2019 at 09:51
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Before a resource development project goes ahead, it should be assessed for risks it poses to Indigenous women, girls and

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