Culled narwhals help feed hungry in the High Arctic

People in a Baffin Island community say the bounty provided by the cull of more than 600 narwhal trapped in the sea ice near Pond Inlet has left them happier and healthier in time for the holidays.
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Stayin’ alive with high-priced hip hop

Ottawa and Iqaluit are pouring $400,000 into a program that aims to use hip hop as a way to promote health, reduce crime and prevent suicide.
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Toronto Film Festival Group picks Top 10 Canadian films of 2008

Two aboriginal movies made by Quebec filmmakers, one of which is an Oscar hopeful, have made the Toronto International Film Festival Group's list of the Top 10 Canadian movies of 2008.

Benoit Pilon's "The Necessities of Life" ("Ce qu'il faut pour vivre"), about an Inuit hunter being treated for tuberculosis near Quebec City, is Canada's submission for a foreign language film Oscar.
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Natives still suffer higher unemployment

Statistics Canada says native people still lag behind in the job market - even those with university and college degrees.
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Rise in female, aboriginal inmates alters prison population: StatsCan

A rising number of inmates at correctional facilities across Canada are females and aboriginal people, a change that poses a unique challenge for jails, a Statistics Canada report says.
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Eggs key to polar bear survival: study

Canada's vulnerable polar bear population could survive the effects of climate change by switching a significant part of their diet from seal meat to scrambled eggs, according to a new U.S. study that suggests snow geese nests along the Hudson Bay shore may become a key feeding site for the iconic Arctic mammal.
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Preserving aboriginal languages big challenge

That aboriginal languages worldwide are in serious trouble was apparent at a recent conference in Saskatoon to preserve and maintain languages.
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Should Nunavut turn down free medical help?

The Nunavut health department has said no thanks to an offer of free research on a lung disease that sends nearly a third of Nunavut children under six months old who live outside Iqaluit to hospital.
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Scientists predict seasonal ice-free Arctic by 2015

Ice in the Canadian Arctic is melting at such an alarming pace due to climate change that the North will be seasonally ice free in six years, according to a study released yesterday from a groundbreaking scientific expedition.
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Governor General Announces the Awarding of the Northern Medal to Ms. Bertha Allen, C.M.

Her Excellency the Right Honourable Michaëlle Jean, Governor General of Canada, announced today that the recipient of the Governor General's Northern Medal is Ms. Bertha Allen, C.M. Ms. Allen will receive the award at a ceremony at a later date.
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Health care often inaccessible to Inuit: report

Inuit have far less contact with doctors than the average Canadian, particularly in the northern communities where few have access to hospitals, a new Statistics Canada report says.
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Inuit lung cancer rates soar

Lung cancer rates are about one-and-a-half times higher among Canadian Inuit men and two to three times higher among Canadian Inuit women than in Alaska and Greenland, Young said.
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First Nations dictionary released this week

First Nations communities in New Brunswick and Maine are celebrating the release this week of a Passamaquoddy-Maliseet dictionary.
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Alberta Métis sue province over constitutional hunting rights

Métis leaders who want the Alberta government to allow their people to hunt and fish for food on all unoccupied Crown land are heading to court.
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Jordan's Principle remains in limbo

Federal and provincial governments have failed profoundly to live up to their obligations in the year since the House of Commons unanimously passed Jordan's Principle to end jurisdictional disputes over social, education and medical services for First Nation children, advocates charge.
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B.C. First Nation says children taken due to housing crisis

A B.C. First Nation is demanding immediate action to deal with mould-infested housing that the community blames for a rash of pre-natal deaths, respiratory illness and child removals.
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Invest in community health, NTI urges

Nunavut needs to invest in community health to reduce its dependence on southern hospitals and expensive medical travel, says a new social development report from Nunavut Tunngavik Inc.
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Sixth Arctic caribou herd in rapid decline

A new study of one of Canada's largest caribou herds seems to confirm fears that, like other herds in the western Arctic, it is suffering a steep and mysterious population decline.
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2008 Canadian Aboriginal Music Awards Winners

Country music sensation Crystal Shawanda led the field taking home five awards at the 10th annual Canadian Aboriginal Music Awards, a star-studded gala celebrating the best in Aboriginal music held at the Rogers Centre in Toronto.
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