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All-Inuit law firm in Iqaluit seeks to break down barriers to justice system | CBC News Tulugaq Law describes itself as Nunavut’s only active Inuit-owned law firm. The team behind it hopes to be able to break down barriers to the justice system.

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Q+A | Nunavut's top doctor says early testing and awareness key to eliminating TB | CBC News Nunavut’s health department has declared an end to tuberculosis outbreaks in Pangnirtung and Pond Inlet. Arviat and Naujaat continue to manage outbreaks in their communities.

Years-long TB outbreaks in Pangnirtung and Pond Inlet are now over, according to Nunavut's health department.

Breaking down the stigma made a difference, Chief Public Health Officer Dr. Ekua Agyemang said in this Q&A with Natsiq Kango.

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Nunavut declares suicide to be a crisis — again | CBC News 10 years after declaring suicide a crisis in Nunavut, the territorial government and the territory’s land claim organization say the crisis remains. But they are stopping short of calling it a public ...

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Forcing treatment for drug use could lead to overdoses, violate people's rights, experts say | CBC News Some experts say involuntary addiction treatment raises serious ethical concerns and could even increase the risk of overdose for some, as Ontario weighs whether it could force people in the criminal ...

The Ontario government says it is considering involuntary addictions treatment for people in the criminal justice system, but experts say evidence for how well this type of treatment works is lacking - and it could lead to more overdoses, not fewer.

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A small tattered and abandoned shoe rests on a sun-bleached bench, with a green adopt-a-bench plaque reading: "A good person is a friend of all living things" near the green metal top of the seat.

"A good person is a friend of all living things."

The greens, yellows, and browns of marshy water swirl with pockets of grasses and detritus.

A wooden, slightly elevated pathway flanked by brown and green grasses, weaving away from the viewer with a cardinal taking off in the centre background.

A wooden walkway swerves through tall beige grass with a singular green metal and wood-planked bench in the right third of the image. Yellow, brown, and green trees in the background.

A goose bobbing underwater for food, just its webbed feet and backside visible above the surface of the rippling pond water.

Some fun with a broken DSLR and 200mm at Point Pelee

A building, corner forward, in the night with pink and yellow lights in the windows and a streak of red in the foreground from a car break light zooming by from left to right.

Almost

A tree, bare of leaves, lit with afternoon light as shadows fall on snow and a fence in the foreground.

Still have a long way to go with composition/editing in Darktable, but I liked this tree.

Light from a streetlight peaks through the branches of a mostly bare tree on a foggy night

Rays of light from the sun bounce off tree branches on a foggy morning.

Some foggy trees

Sunrise at the train station.

Light from a sunrise hitting a bare tree.

Sunrise, cloudy sky over a train station.

Early sunrise over a train station.

A road to a church in a Guatemalan mountain community.

Unforgettable

Sunlight hits an apartment building in Toronto during golden hour.

Some nice light to look forward to on sunset coffee walks

A pastel colured sunset, with a streetlamp lined up with light in the clouds.

University Ave in Toronto during a snowstorm.

Sleepless kinda night

A portrait of Lyndsay Cartwright, a researcher at the Toronto Region Conservation Authority.

A water quality testing station at Mimico Creek.

A view of Mimico Creek looking down towards the City of Toronto.

Calvin Hitch uses a bluetooth-enabled testing device to measure water quality in Mimico Creek.

Grateful for the opportunity to work with Farrah Merali, looking at how road salt use is impacting Toronto waterways and the organisms that live in them.

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Haters will say I haven't slept at all this year.

Ella Fitzgerald - What Are You Doing New Year's Eve?

Peel police say they've arrested a suspect in connection with three sexual assaults in Brampton, alleging the suspect approached women at a bus stop claiming to be a rideshare driver.

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Yes!

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A close up image of marsh grass illuminated by light from a sunset.

Marsh plants in illuminated by light from a sunset on the horizon with deep shadows in the foreground.

A wide photo of a field with a central area of plants hit by light from a sunset. Branches from a shadowy tree make up the left foreground, and a blue sky above the setting sun has contrails from a plane moving across the top left of the image.

Catching some sun at the local conservation area.

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It's just brutal for folks who haven't had working government services for six years.

A hand reaching down to pat a pig buried in hay.

A farmer leads a two-horse team in a weighted-sled pulling competition.

A piglet drinks milk from a sow's nipple.

Baby piglets crowd around a sow for milk in an enclosure. Metal bars keep the sow laying down.

Here are some photos from a summer trip to the Markham Fair.

I've done a bit of agricultural exploration this year in preparation for work on a farming magazine, and I have conflicting feelings about raising animals for food.

What do you think? Is there ethical meat consumption under capitalism?

For my first Bluesky post, I'd like to share a story I wrote about aging farmers in Canada. My professor assigned our class the topic of agriculture. While brainstorming and walking my dog, I met Jennifer and learned about her story.

Here it is: chronicle.durhamcollege.ca/2023/12/the-...