No students injured, according to Iqaluit school’s official Facebook pageBy Jorge AntunesInuksuk High School in Iqaluit went into lockdown after a teacher was injured last Thursday during what the school called a “violent incident.”“IHS experienced a lockdown at 10:04 a.m. [Thursday] morning due to a violent incident in the school. No students were injured,” the official Facebook page for Inuksuk High School said on Thursday. Department of Education spokesperson Krista Amey confirmed the incident in an email to Nunatsiaq News on Monday, adding the lockdown was lifted after six minutes. The RCMP did not respond to questions about whether police responded to the school during the lockdown, if the incident led to any charges or if there is an investigation. The Education Department would not answer follow-up questions about the reported injury.

By Shawn Whatley, March 13, 2024An Ipsos poll for Global News revealed last week that 42 per cent of Canadians would personally pay to travel to the United States for health care, if necessary. Tasteless comments and elite hypocrisy make us angry, but if wait times are unavoidable, all we can do is stick together and weather the storm, right? Wait times are not like natural disasters. Wait times are created by professional managers. While we wait for reform, let’s stop berating desperate patients, who consider leaving Canada for care when wait times grow too long.

Brittany Davila quit her job as a teacher and became a virtual assistant. As a teacher, I'd been talking mostly to eight-year-olds, so I didn't have to be so professional and so corporate. Working as a virtual assistant does not come naturally to me. I'd thought the job was mostly just scheduling and taking calls for clients, but there are so many other moving parts. As a virtual assistant, I make between $21 and $30 an hour.

(Alan Syilboy - image credit)A piece of Mi'kmaw artwork now lives on the moon. Selection of Syliboy's paintingPeralta said he discovered Syliboy's painting at an art gallery in Toronto. Mi'kmaw artist Alan Syliboy says Shirley Bear was his first painting teacher and without her he probably wouldn't have become an artist. Mi'kmaw artist Alan Syliboy likens his art being sent to the moon to petroglyphs that were left behind as messages. A copy of the song, Ko'jua, performed by Morgan Toney and Alan Syliboy and the Thundermakers, was also sent to the moon.

DCIM\100MEDIA\DJI_0621.JPG (CBC - image credit)DCIM\100MEDIA\DJI_0621.JPGThe Provincial Action Network on the Status of Women is calling on the provincial government to form a new task force focused on ending gender-based violence in Newfoundland and Labrador. (CBC)The Provincial Action Network on the Status of Women released a report in hopes to push the provincial government to build a task force to end gender-based violence in Newfoundland and Labrador. "We see some of the highest rates from right across Canada in regard to gender-based violence in our province," said Sharon Williston, co-chair of the Provincial Action Network on the Status of Women. Williston said this also isn't the first time her organization has called for a provincial government task force. "We want to really see that shift in power in the gender-based violence task force and provide a regional platform for diverse voices to strategically and thoughtfully make a collective effort to end gender-based violence in Newfoundland and Labrador."

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Renu Mathew appearing on episode 6 of the The Great Canadian Pottery Throw Down on March 14École Olds High School art and cosmetology teacher Renu Mathew had a blind and fiery experience during episode 5 of The Great Canadian Pottery Throw Down March 7. But she survived, to go into episode 6 this Thursday night, March 14 on CBC. The throw down challenge was to create pitchers while blindfolded. “This is where my strength lies,” Mathew said as she worked on creating the pieces for the raku firing. Thankfully, when she dunked her pieces into the water to cool, they survived intact.

Saskatchewan Education Minister Jeremy Cockrill called RCMP on a group who held a sit-in at his office on Friday (CBC / Radio-Canada - image credit)A sit-in at the education minister's office in North Battleford on Friday ended with the RCMP being called. Education minister Jeremy Cockrill said he had a meeting arranged with an individual teacher, but others, including other members of the local teachers association, showed up for a sit-in. The education minister also said he met with the group for around 15 minutes before attending to other constituency matters. Cockrill said members of the group took photos of his two staff members despite them asking them not to. "That's not the type of behaviour that I would have going into anybody else 's office and I would expect the same for people coming to my office," Cockrill said.

Ainsley Hawthorn (Submitted by Ainsley Hawthorn - image credit)Ainsley HawthornAinsley Hawthorn, the project's research manager, says some in the 2SLGBTQ+ avoid health services due to a lack of education among some health staff. That's according to a research project by Quadrangle N.L., funded by Women and Gender Equality Canada. About half indicated they are gender-diverse, which is around 10 per cent of the gender diverse-population of the province, Hawthorn said. Charlie Murphy, executive director of Quadrangle N.L., says the results of the survey indicate the need for more mental health services, across the province, free of charge, for the community. "I'm certain that the gender-diverse community will be part of that," he said.

Tom Somerville, left, and his wife, Katherine Somerville, enjoyed a vacation in Victoria while he paused cancer treatments. The oncologists have started a campaign through their website, journal articles and podcasts encouraging honest conversations about use of the drugs with cancer patients, their families and experts. The goal of what they call "common-sense oncology" is to prioritize treatments that meaningfully improve survival and quality of life. The father and avid runner treated having cancer like a battle, his wife said. WATCH | Why some cancer patients choose to pause treatment: Why stopping cancer treatment can be about life, not death Duration 8:13 Many treatments for end-stage cancer are expensive, painful and do little to extend a patient’s life.

Under a heavy, rain-soaked Belgian sky, Sweden's flag was raised Monday at NATO headquarters in Brussels to formally mark its new status as a full member of the western military alliance. Its neighbour, Finland, applied at the same time as Sweden and was accepted into the alliance last year. The Nordic country plans to send a reduced battalion to join the Canadian-led multinational brigade in Latvia, part of NATO's mission to deter Russia in eastern Europe. In a statement, the Swedish Armed Forces said that Sweden and Denmark will take turns leading a battalion that will form part of the Canadian-led brigade in Latvia. The Danish and Swedish troops will replace each other every six months, Janes Defence News reported in January, noting that the first Swedish unit — of 600 soldiers — had been designated already and will deploy in 2025.

Child and youth advocate Kelly Lamrock wrote a report calling out the province for failing to properly run social programs, dating back several decades. (Ed Hunter/CBC - image credit)New Brunswick's child, youth and seniors' advocate has issued a sweeping and scathing denunciation of how the provincial government runs social programs, saying the system is fixated on following rules rather than achieving results. "The failings in long-term care are also the failings in how New Brunswick social programs have been governed," Lamrock writes. Lamrock's report said there is a disconnect between the budget process and what New Brunswickers see day to day. That model is more appropriate for the manufacturing sector than social policy, he adds.

WATCH | Ceremony marking 10 years since the withdrawal from Afghanistan:Début du widget Widget. Fin du widget Widget. Canada marks 10 years since the Afghanistan military mission's endTen years after Canadian troops pulled out of Afghanistan, the Canadian forces held an understated ceremony in Ottawa to pay tribute to the lives lost and reflect on the lessons from the nation's longest war. It has become more sharp — even painful — since the fall of Afghanistan to the Taliban in 2021. Maloney said he doesn't think Canadians will ever be ready for a national conversation — either politically or socially — about the Afghan war.

‘Community champions’ are recruiting their neighours to capture heat images of their homesResidents and business owners in Georgetown, P.E.I., are being enlisted to help their town become climate-neutral. Researchers at the University of Prince Edward Island (UPEI) have asked locals to take pictures of their buildings using infrared cameras, which capture heat leaks, as well as with humidity-measuring hygrometers. The data is being collected this month in a new survey, part of the researchers efforts to help Georgetown become a net-zero community — meaning a municipality that reduces at least as many carbon emissions as it creates. The project is being led by UPEI working with community volunteers its researchers call "community champions," who are helping get the word out throughout the community. Professor Kuljeet Grewal says that his team is trying to get up to 350 buildings in Georgetown to participate by the end of March.

(CBC-Radio Canada/Submitted)Four women in Newfoundland and Labrador have been named among the top business leaders in Atlantic Canada. On Thursday night in Moncton, 25 women were named Atlantic Canada's 25 most powerful women in business in 2024 by Atlantic Business Magazine. Heather Dalton says that a list like Atlantic Business Magazine’s is still important in 2024, as she is often one of very few women in many industry business meetings that she attends. (Submitted by Heather Dalton)This is the fourth year in a row that Atlantic Business Magazine has released the list. All four winners this year echoed the sentiment that a list like the one from Atlantic Business Magazine is still important.