Youth in Arctic Canadian town take aim at grocery store’s plastic use
Youth in Inuvik, Northwest Territories are putting pressure on to ban plastic, and at least one store owner is listening.
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Survey in northern city asks parents: should O Canada be sung in schools?
The public school authority in Iqaluit, Nunavut is looking into whether O Canada should be sung at its four schools.
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Students in Arctic Norway go out on climate strike
“What do we want? Action! – When do we want it? – Now!” “Why go to school today if the
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Finnish youth join global climate strike
Finnish young people joined a global climate strike on Friday, urging politicians and decision-makers to take action to prevent climate
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Thousands in Sweden join Greta Thunberg for worldwide climate strike
Students braved the pouring rain to hear artists play and 16 year-old climate activist Greta Thunberg speak. She described climate
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Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg nominated for Nobel Peace Prize
Sixteen-year-old Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg has been nominated for this year’s Nobel Peace Prize, by three Norwegian MPs. “We
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Youth workshop in Arctic Canadian community to focus on safe partying
A Yukon organization is headed to Ulukhaktok, Northwest Territories (central Arctic), on Tuesday to put on a workshop for young
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Hundreds of northern athletes descend on Alberta for Canada Winter Games
Some of the North’s best and brightest young athletes will be in action over the next two weeks in Red
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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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Most teens in Canada’s Northwest Territories not practising safe sex, survey says
Most sexually active teenagers in the Northwest Territories report not using condoms regularly. That’s one of the findings of a
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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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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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Indigenous youth are taking pride in their heritage, speaker tells Elders and Youth conference in Alaska
The 35th annual Elders and Youth conference finished Wednesday in Anchorage, southern Alaska. Liz Medicine Crow is the president of
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