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Inuit UN rep calls on Canada to make Inuktitut an official language

The president of the Inuit representative body for treaty rights and negotiations said it’s only by recognizing Inuktitut as one of Canada’s official languages that schools would receive guaranteed support and funding to teach in Inuktitut, as do English and French schools.Aluki Kotierk, president of Nunavut Tunngavik Inc., said that Canada could show its commitment…

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Calls grow for inmate releases as COVID-19 caseloads climb in jails and prisons

Experts and advocates are calling on governments to release some inmates in provincial jails and federal prisons as outbreaks of COVID-19 driven by the fast-moving Omicron variant spread through the country’s correctional facilities.Federal and provincial corrections facilities are seeing surges in COVID caseloads. (Lars Hagberg/The Canadian Press)Experts and advocates are calling on governments to release…

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Calls grow for HEPA air filters in Canadian classrooms

As the highly transmissible Omicron variant fuels record-high case counts, and schools across Canada delay in-person learning, calls are growing for another layer of protection to be added to classrooms — HEPA filters.HEPA-filtered air purifiers like this one, in a Toronto public school, can reduce the concentration of some viruses in the air by capturing…

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