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Nunavut woman calls 911 from Ottawa hospital after being denied water, she says
An Inuk woman from Pangnirtung, Nunavut, says she was mistreated by nurses at a hospital in Ottawa, who refused to give her water and change...
RCMP say fighting violence against children is part of daily policing in Nunavut
This is part two of a three-part CBC North series, The Small Abused. The series looks into reporting, prevention and support services available to children...
No changing clocks in Yukon this weekend, as territory scraps seasonal time change
Most of Canada is turning back the clocks this weekend — but Yukon is ticking forward. Yukon is ditching seasonal time changes this...
N.W.T. bush pilot makes plea to end ‘fruitless’ aerial wolf cull
A bush pilot with more than 35 years of experience ferrying wildlife researchers over the N.W.T. barrenlands says a plan to kill wolves by air...
Man wields concrete statue to save young woman from bear mauling in Hay River, N.W.T.
A young woman from Hay River, N.W.T., was flown to hospital in Edmonton after she was attacked and injured by a bear early Friday morning....
Ship’s ban on tight clothes has ‘nothing to do with gender,’ says director of polar research institute
The director of a prominent Arctic research institute says dress codes that prohibit female participants from wearing tight-fitting clothing are not meant to be sexist....
‘I will be a little bit more at peace’: Inuit leader reflects on report of CFL team changing name
Natan Obed, president of Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami, says if the reports are true that Edmonton’s CFL team will have a new name, Inuit...
RCMP officer removed from Nunavut community after video surfaces of arrest
An RCMP officer in Kinngait, Nunavut, has been removed from the community and placed on administrative leave after a video surfaced on social...
N.W.T. health officials considering using recycled surgical masks
Health officials say there are enough protective face masks for health-care workers in the Northwest Territories to last “several weeks,” but they are bracing...
Across the North, Indigenous communities are redefining conservation
In a packed gym in Colville Lake, N.W.T., Chief Wilbert Kochon leans into a microphone. Across a roughly-arranged square of folding tables, officials...
Keepers of the Language: Nunavut’s newsreader has done it all, from garbage man to mayor
CBC is doing a series of stories to recognize that the United Nations has declared 2019 the International Year of Indigenous Languages. The observance...
‘They neglected me’: Nunavut mother wants investigation after medical travel debacle
A mother from Cambridge Bay, Nunavut, says she was recently forced to choose between attending a medical appointment in Yellowknife and caring for her...
Kugluktuk man finds message in a bottle 9 years after it was sent adrift
David “Norberg” Klengenberg was gathering wood near the shore of the Arctic Ocean for a recent camping trip when he spotted something gleaming on the sand....
Federal government apologizes to Baffin Inuit for sled dog killings, forced relocations
Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Minister Carolyn Bennett delivers an apology to Inuit for forced relocations and the death of Inuit sled dogs,...
Margot Kidder’s brother spreads her ashes in Yellowknife, her ‘spirit home’
John Kidder, brother of actress Margot Kidder, was in Yellowknife on Wednesday to spread some of her ashes. (Randall McKenzie/CBC) The brother of...
Nunavut TB rates remain high despite community testing
This photo shows bottles of Tuberculosis medication. TB rates in Nunavut remain high despite millions of federal dollars spent on community screening clinics....
