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Addressing Inuit housing shortage will be key to eliminating TB, says study – Nunatsiaq News
18 April, 2019 “Alleviating the chronic housing shortage will be a key element in the elimination of TB in the Canadian Inuit Nunangat” If the Canadian government plans to live up to its promise to eradicate tuberculosis in Inuit communities by 2030, it must first address the severe housing shortage across the Inuit homeland. That’s […]
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Indigenous women across Canada come forward with accounts of forced sterilization, says lawyer – Radio Canada International
A proposed class action lawsuit alleging the coerced sterilization of Indigenous women in Canada is turning up reports from more than one hundred women who say it happened to them. “Some of the women did not realize that physicians, nurses, other health care professionals, the government — couldn’t make decisions for them about their bodies,” […]
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Nunavut man says heavy burden lifted after determining location of mother’s grave – CBC
Apr 18, 2019 ‘A great weight had been lifted up,’ says former politician Jack Anawak Jack Anawak has waited more than 60 years to know where his mother is buried. Anawak, a well-known figure in Nunavut politics who was born in the community of Naujaat, says he was about five years old when he last […]
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Conservation Officers to Hold Archaeological Awareness Event Tomorrow – CHON FM
April 16th, 2019 Yukon Conservation officers will be holding an evening lecture tomorrow at 6:30pm at the Yukon Beringia Centre regarding discovering and acting upon First Nation and other archaeological sites when they’re found in the Yukon wilderness. Yukon Conservation officers will be holding an evening lecture tomorrow at 6:30pm at the Yukon Beringia Centre […]
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Diavik Diamond Mine wants to dump mine waste into its pits – CBC
Company wants to amend its water licence, triggers full environmental review Apr 17, 2019 The Diavik Diamond Mine in the Northwest Territories wants to radically change the way it deals with mine waste at Lac de Gras. The company filed for an amendment to its water licence with the Wek’eezhii Land and Water Board last […]
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Miss Keenan’s class at Khatinas.Axh school in Yukon wins Parks Canada contest with trip to Manitoba – APTN News
April 16, 2019 Miss Keenan’s grade 5, 6 and 7 class at Khatinas.Axh school in the Yukon have won a contest with Parks Canada that will see them travel to Manitoba this summer. The school is based in Teslin, a small community about two hours south from Whitehorse. It’s home to about 125 people – […]
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Nunavut struggles to recruit Inuit health-care workers – Nunatsiaq News
16 April, 2019 Half of the Department of Health’s employees are Inuit, though only a handful work in front-line care Nunatsiaq News partnered with Nunavut Sivuniksavut in Ottawa this past winter to deliver a journalism workshop to a group of first- and second-year students. Some of our reporters and editors spent Wednesday afternoons working with […]
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Woman says child protection system failed her and her kids in time of need – CBC
‘We got nothing,’ says woman of promises of counselling, care after knife attack Apr 16, 2019 A mom says after she was attacked and seriously injured by her ex-partner four months ago, the Northwest Territories child protection system re-victimized her and her children by repeatedly trying to apprehend the kids. The woman told CBC News […]
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Does Yellowknife need a more visible police presence? – Cabin Radio
April 16, 2019 The priorities of Yellowknife’s police and municipal enforcement officers are being discussed by city councillors, with their visibility downtown central to the debate. Yellowknife’s RCMP detachment asks councillors for input on its priorities each year, while council separately provides the City of Yellowknife’s municipal enforcement offers a set of priorities. “Visibility” is […]
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Students on Ice launches Inuit community initiative – Nunatsiaq News
16 April, 2019 The Students on Ice Foundation—which hosts educational youth expeditions in the Arctic—has officially launched its newest program, Expedition 2 Community. E2C will see northern youth between the ages of 15 and 30 help lead community development projects. There will be 50 core youth participants spread across five communities—two in Nunavut, and one […]
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