Exploring Theme: "Legislative and Institutional Issues"

The territory’s child poverty rate is more than double the national average First Peoples Law Report: CBC News: Eye on the Arctic – Half of children under the age of six who live in Nunavut are living in poverty — the highest rate in the country — according to a new report released Tuesday. The report,...

Deaths of 12- and 19-year-old trigger several investigations at facility in Chesterfield Inlet. The Naja Isabelle Home is under investigation after two residents died. Photo: Chesterfield Inlet Development Corp.  APTN News: The Nunavut government says it won’t renew its contract with the company operating a group home in Chesterfield Inlet, Nunavut. Instead residents are being...

NationTalk – 24 civil society groups attending the third ever meeting of Federal, Provincial, Territory Ministers responsible for human rights “condemned the obstructive attitude of some governments” in advancing international human rights obligations. Groups had pressed governments to commit to nation-wide law reform that will legally require governments to adopt a collaborative, accountable, consistent, transparent,...