Exploring Theme: "Legislative and Institutional Issues"

New study points to pattern of high mortality among Inuit patients CBC Indigenous: Nearly 17 years after her mother’s death, Natasha Ita MacDonald, from Kuujjuarapik in northern Quebec, still wonders if she could have survived. Louisa Tuckatuck MacDonald, died at 57, just seven months after doctors discovered a grapefruit-sized mass in her lungs and diagnosed her...

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...