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Evidence of killer whale predation on a yearling bowhead whale in Cumberland Sound, Nunavut

Arctic Science, 2020
Accounts of killer whale (Orcinus orca) predation on marine mammals in the Canadian Arctic are relatively uncommon. Although second-hand reports of killer whale predation events in the Arctic are more common in recent years, these observations are ...
Brent G. Young, Sarah M.E. Fortune, William R. Koski, Stephen A. Raverty, Ricky Kilabuk, Steven H. Ferguson   +5 more
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Cross-jurisdictional pandemic management: providers speaking on the experience of Nunavut Inuit accessing services in Manitoba during the COVID-19 pandemic

International Journal of Circumpolar Health, 2023
Across Canada, the COVID-19 pandemic placed considerable stress on territorial and provincial healthcare systems. For Nunavut, the need to continue to provide access to critical care to its citizens meant that medical travel to provincial points of care (
Josée G. Lavoie, Wayne Clark, Leah McDonnell, Nathan Nickel, Rachel Dutton, Janet Kanayok, Melinda Fowler-Woods, Jack Anawak, Nuqaalaq Brown, Grace Voisey Clark, Tagaak Evaluardjuk-Palmer, Sabrina T. Wong, Julianne Sanguins, Adriana Mudryj, Nastania Mullin, Marti Ford, Judy Clark   +16 more
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A cross-sectional study exploring community perspectives on the impacts of COVID-19 in Nunavut and recommendations for a Holistic Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit approach to emergency response

International Journal of Circumpolar Health
The goal of this study was to examine and address critical knowledge gaps and develop an understanding of both the positive and negative societal outcomes resulting from the public health measures associated with the COVID-19 pandemic in Nunavut and the ...
Zoha Rana, Meagan Leach, Gwen K. Healey Akearok, Jaylene Ukpatiku, Nmesoma Umenwofor-Nweze   +4 more
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Planning and implementation of a community-wide tuberculosis screening intervention: a case study from Naujaat, Nunavut, Canada

International Journal of Circumpolar Health
In Nunavut, public health management of tuberculosis (TB) remains a challenge due to social and economic inequities, geographic isolation, TB-related stigma, and distrust in healthcare linked to a history of colonialism.
Xiao-Ting Xie, Ayel Luis R. Batac, Odette Wills, Kethika Kulleperuma, Ardamanreet Dhillon, Shanthi Palaniappan, Ekua A. Agyemang   +6 more
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Insights from the remote co‐creation of an Indigenous knowledge questionnaire about aquatic ecosystems in Kinngait, Nunavut

Ecological Solutions and Evidence, 2023
There is growing interest in co‐developing research projects that more fully address the priorities of Indigenous communities throughout the Canadian Arctic and beyond.
Laurissa R. Christie, Allison K. Drake, Adam Perkovic, Aiviq Hunters and Trappers Association, Ooloosie Manning, Sheojuk Peter, Pudloo Qiatsuq, Steven M. Alexander, Vivian M. Nguyen, Karen M. Dunmall   +9 more
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Zooarchaeology of Houses and Middens: Investigating Patterns of Assemblage Composition at Early Inuit Sites Across the North American Arctic

International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines faunal assemblages from paired semisubterranean houses and middens at 10 Early Inuit sites spanning the North American Arctic (ca. 1200–1500 ce) to evaluate whether local resource bases or other factors primarily structure zooarchaeological variability.
Lauren E. Y. Norman, T. Max Friesen, Sean P. A. Desjardins   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Heroes for the helpless: A critical discourse analysis of Canadian national print media’s coverage of the food insecurity crisis in Nunavut

Canadian Food Studies, 2016
In northern Canada, the Inuit’s transition from a culturally traditional to a Western diet has been accompanied by chronic poverty and provoked high levels of food insecurity, resulting in numerous negative health outcomes.
Bradley Hiebert, Elaine Power
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The implementation of rifapentine and isoniazid (3HP) in two remote Arctic communities with a predominantly Inuit population, the Taima TB 3HP study

International Journal of Circumpolar Health, 2020
Background: The incidence of TB among Inuit is the highest in Canada. A significantly shorter latent TB infection (LTBI) treatment with rifapentine and isoniazid once weekly for 12 weeks (3HP) is now available in limited settings in Canada.
G. G. Alvarez, D. Van Dyk, R. Mallick, S. Lesperance, P. Demaio, S. Finn, S. Edmunds Potvin, M. Patterson, C. Pease, K. Amaratunga, C. Hui, D.W. Cameron, S. Mulpuru, S.D. Aaron, F. Momoli, A. Zwerling   +15 more
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Experimental and field evidence indicate that islet‐nesting tundra birds experience reduced nest predation and benefit indirectly from high snow goose densities

Oikos, EarlyView.
Landscape features can shape the occurrence and strength of predator–prey interactions by influencing predation risk and prey distribution. In the High Arctic, some bird species select nesting sites with physical features that impede access for their main terrestrial predator, the Arctic fox.
Marylou Beaudoin, Andréanne Beardsell, Éliane Duchesne, Madeleine‐Zoé Corbeil‐Robitaille, Pierre Legagneux, Dominique Berteaux, Joël Bêty   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Developing Multi-Level Institutions from Top-Down Ancestors

International Journal of the Commons, 2007
The academic literature contains numerous examples of the failures of both top-down and bottom-up common pool resource management frameworks. Many authors agree that management regimes instead need to utilize a multi-level governance approach to meet ...
Martha Dowsley
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