Twenty-three-year-old Inuk activist Ashley Cummings was the keynote speaker at the World Forum on Climate Justice at Glasgow Caledonian University last month.
A week-long water crisis that has left residents of Nunavut's capital city Iqaluit without drinking water is also exposing a chronic problem for many northern communities: It's almost impossible to safely get rid of garbage.
The Nunavut government has declared a 14-day state of emergency in Iqaluit after water in the capital was deemed undrinkable and potentially tainted with petroleum.
In a territory with low vaccination rates, a shortage of health workers, and thousands of unvaccinated kids heading back to class, federal assistance may not be enough.
With the Arctic warming twice as fast as the rest of the planet, Nunavut is trying to confront climate change by cutting its reliance on diesel-generated electricity — but high costs put the switch to solar out of reach for many.
A lawsuit alleging RCMP systematically brutalized Indigenous people in Northern Canada can proceed as a class action despite objections from the government, Federal Court ruled on Wednesday.
It's a "sad reflection" on Canada that an Inuk MP feels she's been racially profiled by security officials on Parliament Hill, Indigenous Services Minister Marc Miller said Wednesday.
Canada was excoriated as a racist, hypocritical failure on Tuesday, June 15, 2021, as MPs who don't intend to seek re-election said their official farewells to Parliament.