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Final approach on the air charter into the Voisey’s Bay mine, a fly-in/fly-out nickel, copper and cobalt mine located near Nain, Nunatsiavut, in northern Labrador. (Matthew Pike)

As mining activity expands in northern Labrador, COVID‑19’s ‘new normal’ difficult to accept for Nunatsiavut Inuit communities

Matthew Pike, University of Guelph

‘Living with COVID-19’ has much higher risks for Nunatsiavut Inuit communities than many other areas. Recognizing those risks is crucial as mining operations resume in Newfoundland and Labrador.
Cancer rates are rising among Inuit and critical oncology specialists and treatments are often located in urban centres, thousands of kilometres away from remote communities in Inuit Nunangat. (Alex Hizaka)

An Inuit approach to cancer care promotes self‑determination and reconciliation

Janet Jull, Queen's University, Ontario and Inuit Medical Interpreter Team

A ‘shared decision-making’ model enables collaboration with Indigenous communities within Canada’s health-care system - to respond to TRC Calls to Action and address rising cancer rates.
We are not doing a good job of communicating climate change. People have diverging interpretations of how climate change fits into their own stories. (Unsplash)

Why we should stop labelling people climate change deniers

Chui-Ling Tam, University of Calgary

We must recognize the complexity of perspectives on climate change if we want to confront it.

Related Topics

  1. Cancer care
  2. Climate change
  3. Climate change denial
  4. COVID-19
  5. Fly-in fly-out
  6. Inuit
  7. Nunatsiavut
  8. Nunavut
  9. TRCConversation
  10. Truth and Reconciliation in Canada

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