Cancer-related health behaviors and health service use among Inuit and other residents of Canada’s north [PDF]
Objective – To identify the extent to which differences between Inuit and other residents of Canada’s North in a set of health behaviors and health service use related to cancer incidence and diagnosis can be accounted for by demographic, socio-economic ...
James Ted McDonald, Ryan Trenholm
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Design and pedagogical practices of an Inuit-focused Bachelor of Education program in Labrador
Memorial University’s 2009 Presidential Task Force on Aboriginal Initiatives called for the establishment of a community-based teacher education program for Labrador.
Sylvia Moore, Gerald Galway
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Climate change and inuits [PDF]
The Inuit Circumpolar Conference will seek a declaration from the Inter‐American Commission on Human Rights that emissions of greenhouse gases, which the conference says, are destroying the Inuit way of life, are a violation of human rights, conference chair Sheila Watt‐Cloutier announced on 15 December.Her announcement comes shortly after the mid ...
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Addressing tuberculosis among Inuit in Canada.
The average annual rate of tuberculosis (TB) among Inuit in Canada is now more than 290 times higher than Canadian born non-Indigenous people. How did this happen?
M. Patterson, S. Flinn, K. Barker
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Review of Renatus’ Kayak: A Labrador Inuk, an American G.I. and a Secret World War II Weather Station by Rozanne Enerson Junker [PDF]
Review of Renatus’ Kayak: A Labrador Inuk, an American G.I.
Campbell, Isabel
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Meta Ingognita: Canadian Museum of Civilization Announces Project to Investigate Frobisher’s Voyages to Canadian Arctic [PDF]
In a July 26, 1991 communique, the Canadian Museum of Civilization announced a Canadian-led international project to investigate archaeological sites in the Baffin Island area, once known as Meta Incognita, or the Unknown Shore.
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Le pentecôtisme à Qikiqtarjuaq, Nunavut : Un discours portant sur la transformation et la guérison [PDF]
À Qikiqtarjuaq, une communauté inuite contemporaine, la transformation religieuse est étroitement liée à la restauration sociale. Une série de nouveaux développements affecte les communautés inuites sur les plans social, politique et religieux : par ...
Stuckenberger, A. Nicole
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About half of Nunavik Inuit live in overcrowded households compared to very few Canadians from the general population. Living in overcrowded households is associated with greater risks of suffering from mental health problems for Canadian adolescents ...
Camille Pépin+4 more
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The Geoglyphs of the Atacama Desert: A Bond of Landscape and Mobility [PDF]
In the northern-most area of Chile, stretching six hundred miles down the coast of South America and expanding more than forty thousand square miles into Bolivia, Peru and Argentina lies the Atacama Desert.
Labash, Marika
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Use and Communication of Probabilistic Forecasts [PDF]
Probabilistic forecasts are becoming more and more available. How should they be used and communicated? What are the obstacles to their use in practice? I review experience with five problems where probabilistic forecasting played an important role. This
Raftery, Adrian E.
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