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Documentary returns to Inukjuak 100 years after ‘Nanook of the North’
By Jeff Pelletier Local Journalism Initiative Reporter Inuit have come from the Ice Age to the Space Age in one lifetime. That’s one observation included in documentary A Century After Nanook, which ...
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MAiD and marginalized people: Coroner’s reports shed light on assisted death in Ontario
By Karandeep Sonu Gaind  Professor of Psychiatry, University of Toronto Earlier this month, the Office of the Chief Coroner for Ontario released new reports highlighting some of the reasons some ...
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Biden visits Indian Country and apologizes for the ‘sin’ of a 150-year-old boarding school policy
President Joe Biden on Friday formally apologized to Native Americans for the “sin” of a government-run boarding school system that for decades forcibly separated children from their parents, calling ...
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Toxic waste project on hold amid environmental concerns and unified resistance from area leaders
By Jacqueline St. Pierre, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter The Manitoulin Expositor AGNEW LAKE—The contentious plan to transport niobium tailings to the Agnew Lake Tailings Management Area (ALTMA) ...
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Salluit 4-year-old suffers months-long eye infection with no referral south
By Cedric Galant/Local Journalism Initiative Reporter A Salluit family fears four-year-old Isaiah Tayara Saviadjuk might have lasting complications from an eye infection after struggling for two ...
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Family fears drug dealers may have abducted missing M’Chigeeng woman amid Island’s growing drug crisis
M’CHIGEENG—The disappearance of Juanita Migwans, a 30-year-old First Nations woman last seen on October 2 in M’Chigeeng First Nation, has her family fearing the worst. Her loved ones believe she may ...
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Brazil reaches $23 billion settlement with mining firms over 2015 environmental disaster
Brazil’s federal government on Friday reached a multibillion-dollar settlement with the mining companies responsible for a 2015 dam collapse that the government said was the country’s worst-ever ...
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Biden at last visits Indian Country, where he will apologize for 150-year-old boarding school policy
President Joe Biden is using his long-promised first presidential visit to Indian Country to formally apologize to Native ...
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Canada wide warrant issued for federal offender serving time for Sexual Interference conviction
The Repeat Offender Parole Enforcement (R.O.P.E.) Squad is  seeking the public’s help in locating  a federal offender ...
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We discovered a new fossil species of prehistoric fish
The Conversation What do the ginkgo (a tree), the nautilus (a mollusc) and the coelacanth (a fish) all have in common? They don’t look alike, and they aren’t biologically related, but part of their ...
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2021 Census data highlights Indigenous identity gaps in Squamish
By Bhagyashree Chatterjee, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter Did you know that 5.4% of Squamish’s population identifies as Indigenous? That’s 1,285 people—mostly people from First Nations and Métis ...