‘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 can move on to…
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 media showing what appeared…
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 for the increased…
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 from the territory's department of…
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 is meant to…
‘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 23-month-old son because…
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. Curious,…
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, on Wednesday at Iqaluit's…
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 Superman actress Margot Kidder…
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. (Nunavut Department of Health)…
‘I’m deeply sorry,’ says president of Winnipeg hospital after family buries wrong baby
Tony Alagalak, Alice Kinak and their family. After the couple's baby was buried in Arviat, Nunavut, officials from the Winnipeg hospital flew to the community to tell…