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Traditional Indigenous foodways and retail subsidies: Evidence from the Northwest Territories Community Survey and Nutrition North Canada

Canadian Journal of Economics/Revue canadienne d'économique, EarlyView.
Abstract Traditional foods (often referred to as “country foods”) play a critical role in Indigenous culture, nutrition, food sovereignty and food security. Policies that prioritize store‐bought food are often viewed as undermining these foods. We provide evidence that two recent policy reforms that subsidize store‐bought food in the Northwest ...
Bela Georgiev, Nicholas Li
wiley   +1 more source

Transitions of social-ecological subsistence systems in the Arctic [PDF]

, 2017
Transitions of social-ecological systems (SES) expose governance systems to new challenges. This is particularly so in the Arctic where resource systems are increasingly subjected to global warming, industrial development and globalization which ...
Clark, Douglas A., Fauchald, Per, Hausner, Vera, Schmidt, Jennifer   +3 more
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Causes and risk factors for infant mortality in Nunavut, Canada 1999–2011

BMC Pediatrics, 2012
Background The northern territory Nunavut has Canada’s largest jurisdictional land mass with 33,322 inhabitants, of which 85% self-identify as Inuit.
Collins Sorcha A, Surmala Padma, Osborne Geraldine, Greenberg Cheryl, Bathory Laakkuluk, Edmunds-Potvin Sharon, Arbour Laura   +6 more
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Municipal Economic Development “Key Sectors”: Do Priorities Match Realities?

Canadian Public Administration, EarlyView.
Abstract This article explores whether municipal economic development priorities align with Canada's changing economy and workforce and whether these same priorities address the employment needs of municipalities' working‐age residents. Our analysis draws on census division and census subdivision data from the 2021 Canadian Census and our own original ...
Aaron A. Moore, Joseph Lyons, Hannah Verrips   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Caribou co-management in Nunavut: Implementing the Nunavut Land Claims Agreement

Rangifer, 2003
In 1993 the Nunavut Land Claims Agreement (NLCA) was signed and this lead to the creation of Nunavut in 1999. Under the NLCA caribou and other wildlife in Nunavut are co-managed by government and Inuit. The Nunavut Wildlife Management Board (NWMB) is the
Michelle Wheatley
doaj   +1 more source

Cost-effectiveness analysis of 3 months of weekly rifapentine and isoniazid compared to isoniazid monotherapy in a Canadian arctic setting

BMJ Open, 2021
Objective To assess the cost effectiveness of once weekly rifapentine and isoniazid for 12 weeks (3HP) to the current standard care for latent tuberculosis (TB) infection (LTBI) in Iqaluit, Nunavut.Design A cost-effectiveness analysis using a Markov ...
Ranjeeta Mallick, Elaine Kilabuk, Christopher Pease, Alice Zwerling, Sunita Mulpuru, Gonzalo Alvarez, Mike Patterson, Sandy Finn, Yahya Habis, Kevin Schwartzman   +9 more
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Intersections of Class and Colonisation: Access to Dental Care for Indigenous Peoples in Canada

Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objectives Inequitable access to healthcare is a central driver of the disproportionate burden of disease in Indigenous peoples. The aim of this study is to investigate inequities in access to dental care, accounting for supra‐additive effects at the intersections of educational attainment, household income, and Indigeneity.
Nasir Z. Bashir, Gustavo G. Nascimento
wiley   +1 more source

Seismological structure of the 1.8 Ga Trans-Hudson Orogen of North America [PDF]

, 2016
Precambrian tectonic processes are debated: what was the nature and scale of orogenic events on the younger, hotter, and more ductile Earth? Northern Hudson Bay records the Paleoproterozoic collision between the Western Churchill and Superior plates—the ∼
Abbott, Acton, Agius, Ammon, Amy Gilligan, Baird, Bao, Bastow, Bastow, Berman, Berman, Breemen, Bédard, Caldwell, Christensen, Corrigan, Corrigan, Darbyshire, Darbyshire, Darbyshire, Eaton, Eaton, Ekström, Fiona A. Darbyshire, Flament, Garth, Gibb, Gilligan, Hartlaub, Hartlaub, Herrmann, Hoffman, Ian D. Bastow, Jones, Kennett, Kgaswane, Kind, Leech, Ligorría, Nelson, Nunn, Nábělek, Pawlak, Pawlak, Porritt, Rai, Rapine, Rey, Schneider, Schulte-Pelkum, Snyder, Snyder, St-Onge, St-Onge, St-Onge, Thompson, Thompson, Tugume, Wessel, Zegers, Zhang, Zhu, Özalaybey   +62 more
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Permafrost characterization, mapping, modelling, and knowledge sharing in support of construction of community roads and trails over sensitive tundra. Kugluktuk, Nunavut, Canada

Arctic Science
As part of an Inuit-led initiative, a collaborative research project combined scientific methods and Inuit knowledge to design an environmentally friendly and climate change-resilient access route from the community of Kugluktuk to Kugluk Territorial ...
Michel Allard, Stephanie Coulombe, Marc-André Ducharme, Samuel Bilodeau, Larry Adjun, Leesee Papatsie, Gerry Attatahak, Samuel Gagnon   +7 more
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Genetic diversity, structure and gene flow of migratory barren-ground caribou (Rangifer tarandus groenlandicus) in Canada

Rangifer, 2016
Migratory barren-ground caribou (Rangifer tarandus groenlandicus) provide an opportunity to examine the genetic population structure of a migratory large mammal whose movements and distribution, in some instances, have not been heavily influenced by ...
Keri McFarlane, Anne Gunn, Mitch Campbell, Mathieu Dumond, Jan Adamczewski, Greg Wilson   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source