Nunavut

Nunavut: The study has been years in the making, and is the first extensive study on suicide in Nunavut. The 56-page report is called Qaujivallianiq Inuusirijauvalauqtunik , or Learning from Lives that have been Lived, according to CBC. Those individual portraits were used to find risk factors that contributed to deaths by suicide as well as protective factors and People who died by suicide in Nunavut were more likely to have experienced childhood physical or sexual abuse, and were more likely to have been diagnosed with depression, according to a new study from McGill University. The researchers interviewed almost 500 people in Nunavut with connections to 120 people who died by suicide in the territory between 2003 and 2006. For comparisons, the researchers also interviewed another 120 people who had close birthdays, came from the same community and were the same gender as those who died. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Arctic Community Dept: Three weeks have been set aside for the preliminary hearing, which will start on Feb. 20, 2012, the Nunavut Court of Justice confirmed Monday in Iqaluit, according to CBC. The alleged offences took place between 1978 and 1982, when Dejaeger was serving as a missionary in the eastern Arctic community and a preliminary hearing will take place next year for Eric Dejaeger, a former Roman Catholic priest accused of sex crimes against children in Nunavut in the late-1970s and 1980s. Eric Dejaeger, right, is escorted out of the Iqaluit courthouse on Jan. 20, shortly after he was brought back to Canada from Belgium. He remains in custody at the Baffin Correctional Centre. Dejaeger, now 64, faces more than 30 criminal charges including indecent assault and buggery from multiple complainants who claim he abused them when they were children in Igloolik, Nunavut. As reported in the news.
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indigenius show: It's presented by Nunavut Sivuniksavut, a college program for students from across Nunavut offered through Algonquin College, according to CBC. Nunavut Sivuniksavut gets 5M boost for student housing New post-secondary program puts Inuit youth in touch with their culture Inuit fashion featured for the first time at Indigenius show in Ottawa The play focuses on a few key points in Inuit history and on the events that affected them most, such as residential schools, re-location and the dog slaughter. The youths take to the stage at Arts Court Theatre Tuesday night for the second of two performances of a play called The Inuit Story. Hope for the future' It is an important story for other Canadians to know, said Larissa Mac Donald, an instructor at the school who is helping with the production. It also shows a hope for the future. We see our students just lift with pride as they become ambassadors for Inuit, and advocate for Inuit, she said. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Danny Savard Dept: Samir Atalah is originally from Syria and speaks six languages. When he came north for a job and an adventure he had planned on spending only a few months in Iqaluit. That was five years ago, according to CBC. Atalah is one of about 20 drivers who work for Nunavut Caribou Cabs. The owner, Danny Savard, says his business couldn't survive solely on local hires. But word of mouth in southern Canada has meant a relatively stable workforce for the small business owner and as newcomers to Canada head north in search of money and a better life, they re changing the face of the northern landscape. "We see a lot of people coming in Nunavut," he said. "They don't come for nothing. We show them what is good, what is not." (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

BCG Vaccine Dept: The vaccine is offered to newborns in Nunavut and helps protect against serious forms of the disease for two years. The rate of TB in Nunavut is about 75 times the national average, according to the Canadian Medical Association. Sanofi Pasteur, the manufacturer of the BCG vaccine, estimates production will resume in late 2013 after renovations to its Ontario manufacturing facility are completed, according to CBC. Nunavut was rationing its remaining supply of the vaccine when the manufacturer recalled the remaining vials last Friday as problems at the company s manufacturing facility in Ontario may have affected the vaccine s quality and the Canadian manufacturer of the BCG tuberculosis vaccine says it won't be making more until late 2013. Sanofi Pasteur, the only Canadian company that makes the BCG vaccine, stopped distributing it in April. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Yvonne Niego: Police in Iqaluit, Nunavut, say Oblate priest Joannis Rivoire is wanted on three sex-related charges dating from his time in Rankin Inlet between 1968 and 1970, according to Times Colonist. Niego said the alleged offences are against children, including a 14-year-old and IQALUIT, Nunavut - RCMP confirm they have an active arrest warrant on child sex abuse charges for a second Arctic priest who left Canada. "We have a valid arrest warrant," Cpl. Yvonne Niego said Thursday. "If he returns to Canada, he will be arrested to face justice." (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Nunavut: Nunavut A defrocked Arctic priest has been sentenced to 19 years in prison for dozens of sex offences against Inuit children, according to The Chronicle Herald. He was originally supposed to be tried on some of the charges in 1995, but fled to his native Belgium and lived in Oblate homes until he was returned to Canada for immigration violations and Eric Dejaeger deh-YAY -guhrz crimes took place 35 years ago in the remote Nunavut community of Igloolik when he was there as an Oblate missionary. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Eric Dejaeger: IQALUIT, Nunavut - A former priest who this week is to face 76 sex charges involving Inuit children may have been tried years ago but for a quiet nod from Canada that allowed him to leave the country, says a church leader. , according to Winnipeg Free Press. Vervust sheds light on questions that have troubled Dejaeger's alleged victims for nearly a decade: How was a man facing child abuse charges allowed to leave the country days before his trial? And why did it take so long for him to be returned? Eric Dejaeger is shown in an undated Interpol photo. Dejaeger, a former priest who this week is to face 76 sex charges involving Inuit children, may have been tried years ago but for a quiet nod from Canada that allowed him to leave the country, says a church leader.THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-Interpol Georges Vervust is the top official with the Belgian Oblates, an order of Catholic priests that sent Eric Dejaeger to several communities in what is now Nunavut. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

dan carlson: Bad timing, said Carlson, according to National Observer. But he said Nunavut's plans to regulate distribution and consumption of cannabis are emerging and are likely to look a little different than anywhere else in the country. We do feel behind in our preparation, said Dan Carlson, Nunavut's deputy minister of finance. ; The territory had an election in the fall and, because of its consensus-style government, little could be done until new members met and laid out an agenda for the new legislature session a meeting that doesn't begin until Monday. Don't look for pot stores in Iqaluit any time soon, he said. We think that's the smart move for Nunavut. We are only proposing to offer online sales. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Eric Dejaeger: "It's almost a relief," the woman said recently from her home in Igloolik, Nunavut, the community where most of the charges against Eric Dejaeger from 18 years ago are based, according to Times Colonist. It was as if he'd returned from the dead when he was brought back in January 2011 after Belgium kicked him out for immigration violations, the woman said and IQALUIT, Nunavut - The worst is already over, says one of the dozens of alleged victims of a disgraced priest whose trial on 76 sex-related charges involving Inuit children is to begin Monday. Dejaeger was supposed to be tried in 1995 for his activities as an Oblate priest in the tiny Arctic hamlet on the Melville Peninsula. Instead, he fled to his homeland of Belgium some say with the tacit consent of Canadian justice officials. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.