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CANADA VOTES 2025
Meet the federal candidates running in Nunavik
Three of the four candidates running to be the MP for Abitibi-Baie-James-Nunavik-Eeyou spoke to CBC about their priorities.
British woman apologizes for claims she set a record in Nunavut
Many media outlets around the world reported Camilla Hempleman-Adams as the first woman to trek solo across Baffin Island, causing outrage among some Nunavummiut.
CANADA VOTES 2025
Housing, mental health, addictions among the issues Nunavimmiut care most about this election
Carbon taxes, military bases, fighting against tariffs – these are some of the big-ticket policy announcements heard from the major parties so far in this federal election campaign. But in Nunavik, many residents say they just want action to address the basics, like food insecurity, mental health and addictions treatment.
'It's just insulting': Backlash over Brit's claims of being first woman to solo traverse across Nunavut island
Camilla Hempleman-Adams has made international headlines with her claims of being the first solo woman to trek across Baffin Island — but Inuit question that.
Nunavut hunters urge for reassessment as Baffinland eyes 2026 construction of Steensby rail
The Steensby port and rail project was approved in 2012. But Inuit hunters believe environmental conditions, and the climate, have changed a lot since then. They're calling for an environmental reassessment before the project can commence.
Nunavik advocates push for more Inuit-led suicide prevention efforts
Two youths in Umiujaq, Que., took their own lives within the span of several weeks in late 2024. Now, advocates are calling for mental health services oriented toward the Inuit way of doing things.
First Inuk RCMP cadet out of Nunavut in decades on being more than a uniform
RCMP Const. Inuuki Burke says he's admired the RCMP’s Red Serge for years. Now he gets to wear one, as the first Inuk cadet recruited out of Nunavut to graduate from the RCMP Academy since 2003.
Northerners, experts question Conservatives' pledge to build military base in Iqaluit
Some northerners and Arctic security experts say the federal Conservatives' pledge to build a permanent military base in Iqaluit is a move in the right direction, but they also have questions about how it'll be done.
'You can do it,' says this Sanirajak, Nunavut, man to others who live with a disability
Tyrone Epak is proud to call himself a deaf person – but it’s taken him many years to come to terms with his disability. Fortunately, he had support from a teacher at school who also shares his struggles.
Nunavut elder builds traditional sod house, as researchers uncover others from the past
The Kitikmeot Heritage Society is working with archaeologists to excavate sod houses near Cambridge Bay – and collect elders' testimonies. Inuit lived in those dwellings, even in the harshest of winters, for thousands of years.