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Early French immersion: How teachers and families can support oral language development

Early French immersion programs, designed for students who don’t speak French as a first language, are offered in every province and territory in Canada, except Nunavut.

The Conversation

Mount Thor: The mountain with Earth's longest vertical drop

Mount Thor, also known as Thor Peak, is a mountain in Nunavut, Canada with the largest vertical drop in the world — a terrifying escarpment with an average overhang of 15 degrees from vertical.

LiveScience

Why Are Immigrants From Tropical Countries Coming to This Arctic Outpost?

"Why not here?" says the owner of a Lebanese restaurant in Canada's semiautonomous Nunavut Territory.

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Canada's new prime minister visits country's Arctic region to assert sovereignty

New Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has arrived at the edge of the Arctic Circle in an effort to assert sovereignty over the increasingly contested region

The Independent UK

Inuit children in Nunavut face a preventable food security crisis

Nunavut has the highest rate of child poverty and the highest rate of food insecurity of any Canadian province or territory. In 2022, around 80 per cent of Indigenous children aged between one and 14 in Nunavut lived in households experiencing food insecurity. In 2018, the rate of childhood food…

The Conversation

Should the Arctic Really Brace for an Invasion from China or Russia?

The people who live there would rather see more housing and maybe some dentists

The Walrus

Who’s Afraid of Country Food?

There’s a way to feed everyone in Nunavut: give hunters a salary, eat more inussiutit

The Walrus

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Why does TB have such a hold on the Inuit communities of the Canadian Arctic?

Canada has one of the world's lowest rates of tuberculosis. Yet this deadly disease is surging among Indigenous people in this icy, remote part of the country.

WEKU

Mary Lynn Rajskub And Jay Ryan Join North Of North

Mary Lynn Rajskub and Jay Ryan join the cast of North of North, a comedy series set in Nunavut, Canada, following a young Inuk mother's journey to create a...

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Indigenous women in Northern Canada creating sustainable livelihoods through tourism

In summer 2022, the Northern WE in Tourism study invited Indigenous women entrepreneurs from northern Newfoundland and Labrador, northern Québec, Nunavut, the Yukon and Northwest Territories to collaborate on an Indigenous-led and ally-supported research project.

The Conversation

Canadian Arctic Snow School hopes to boost climate fight

Researchers hope first-ever ‘Arctic Snow School’ in Nunavut will bolster cooperation, understanding of changing region.

Al Jazeera

The long-forgotten Inuit survivors of Catholic abuses

In the remote Canadian city of Iqaluit, survivors confront – and forgive – an abusive church legacy.

Al Jazeera

Reparations to Indigenous Peoples are critical after Pope's apology for residential schools

Many people are contemplating Pope Francis’s recent apology for residential schools in Canada during his visit to Alberta, as well as his statements from Québec City and Iqaluit. In the aftermath of historical atrocities, apologies can offer a sense of justice and acknowledgement for people who were the targets of…

The Conversation

The pope visited Nunavut for the final apology of his Canadian tour

Pope Francis traveled to the edge of the Arctic to deliver an apology to the Inuit people for the "evil" of Canada's residential schools, wrapping up his week-long "penitential pilgrimage" to Canada.

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Reuters

On last Canadian stop, Pope rallies Inuit youth to unite like a hockey team

Pope Francis, in his last speech on a six-day trip to Canada, delivered a message on Friday meant to inspire northern Inuit youth, including a reference to one of the country's most popular sports, hockey.

Reuters

Pope again asks for forgiveness as tour ends in Canada's north

Pope Francis again asked for forgiveness after meeting on Friday with residential school survivors in the Arctic territory of Nunavut, the last stop in his six-day visit to Canada to apologize to indigenous people for abuse in government schools run by the Roman Catholic Church.

Al Jazeera

Pope Francis apologises again as Canada visit wraps up in Nunavut

Pope’s six-day tour of Canada is ending in northern territory of Nunavut, where he met residential school survivors.

The Independent UK

Pope heads to Nunavut to apologize at end of Canadian tour

Pope Francis is wrapping up his Canadian pilgrimage by meeting with Indigenous delegations and visiting Inuit territory in northern Nunavut

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The Independent UK

Pope ends Canadian visit with stop in small, far-north city

In his extensive papal travels, Pope Francis has never journeyed further north than Iqaluit, the capital city of the Inuit-governed territory of Nunavut in northern Canada

Reuters

In Canada's north, environment-minded Pope to get climate change close-up

Pope Francis's upcoming visit to Canada's Arctic territory of Nunavut draws attention to a focal point for global climate change, with sea ice disappearing fast and permafrost thawing.

The Guardian - US

Canadian Arctic tuberculosis outbreak lays bare overcrowded living conditions

Officials in Nunavut say there are 31 cases of active tuberculosis in the hamlet of Pangnirtung, a community of 1,500

The Conversation

No time to waste: We need to start prioritizing solid waste management in First Nation communities

Last year, Harry Towtongie, the mayor of Rankin Inlet, Nunavut, bemoaned how toxic substances released from the community’s dumpsite into the nearby ocean have been harming local food sources. He said the dumpsite was full and overflowing, and must be decommissioned before a new one is built, but financial support…

Inverse

'Slash/Back' review: Inuit sci-fi thriller for fans of 'The Thing'

Introspection and aliens in the stark tundra of Nunavut.

The Conversation

Canada must accommodate Indigenous and minority languages to be truly multicultural

The time has come for Canada to revisit its approach to languages. With recent calls from top Inuit figures to make Inuktitut an official language of Canada alongside English and French, and an earlier lawsuit over the right for students to be educated in Inuktitut in Nunavut, there is no…

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