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Nunavut's Representative for Children and Youth says she's concerned with the territorial government's lack of data tracking.

“I have been assured that by June next year, this facility will be a fully fledged centre.” The cancer centre currently under construction in Malawi’s capital, Lilongwe will be fully operational as of June 2022, government authorities have disclosed. Currently, the facility only provides chemotherapy but by June 2022 the hospital will be offering radiotherapy […]

Earlier this year, a Nunavut father received a call that his son had been beaten up at school. The aggressor —  who was three grades older —  had spit on the man's son. The younger boy retaliated by splashing a slush drink on the older boy, and got punched in the face for it. While the two boys were separated in different offices, the aggressor left the office, sought out the younger boy, and began assaulting him anew, the father told CBC. The older boy received a week's suspension —  the maximum allowed without intervention by the local District Education Authority. Furious, th...

Posted: Feb 22, 2021 5:00 AM CT | Last Updated: February 22 Students board a school bus at the Nakasuk Elementary School in Iqaluit in a March 30, 2009, file photo. In the 2019-2020 school year, there were more than 1,000 violent incidents in Nunavut's schools.(Nathan Denette/Canadian Press) This is Part 1 of a three-part series on violence in Nunavut's schools. In the 2019-2020 school year, there were more than 1,000 violent incidents in Nunavut's schools. Of those, 971 were student-on-student incidents, 110 were incidents where students were alleged to have assaulted staff, and 12 were wher...