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Dr. Ellen Hodges serves as the Chief of Staff for the Yukon-Kuskokwim Health Corporation; a 50-bed hospital responsible for the health care needs of over 28,000 people in the western frontiers of Alaska—an area equivalent to the size of Oregon.

Delivering quality health care to the far-flung native tribes and villages is further complicated by the lack of roads and the dangers of bad weather.

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As of 10 pm Thursday night, Montreal’s longest boil-water advisory was finally lifted, and citizens were told the water was safe to drink.

Mayor Michael Applebaum gave the all clear in a press conference Thursday night, roughly 36 hours after the alert was issued late Wednesday morning.

Test results showed no bacterial contamination.

A planned nuclear waste disposal site in southwestern Ontario is a cause of concern for Michigan state senators.

According to The Star, Michigan senate passed a resolution on Tuesday which suggests the waste site be moved farther from the shores of Lake Huron.

A new bill in the National Assembly can enable justice to be served when a crime victim comes before.

As reported by The Gazette, Bill 22 would extend Quebec's statutes of limitations on criminal civil suits to 30 years for sexual abuse and 10 years for other crimes.

It will also increase compensation under the Quebec crime victims’ compensation act. 

The Harper government has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars airing prime-time ads for a new federal Canada Jobs Grant for training workers—a program that doesn’t exist yet.

Amid a senate expense scandal, Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s chief of staff has resigned.

The now ex-chief of staff, Nigel Wright, resigned Sunday after it was discovered that he wrote a 90 thousand dollar cheque for Senator Mike Duffy to repay improperly claimed housing expenses.

According to the CBC, Liberal MP Bob Rae told the media that Senator Duffy’s audit had been shortened because of the 90 thousand dollar payment he was able to make, thanks to Wright.

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The Cree Grand Council is asking for Montreal based Resolute Forest Products to have its sustainable forestry certification revoked.

According to the Gazette, the Cree insist that Resolute is not following sustainable forestry practices in the 750 thousand hectare area of land north of Chibougaumou where their traplines are located.

Among the complaints, the Cree say Resolute didn’t obtain their consent for forestry operations, and that Resolute has been clear-cutting.

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Financial aid has been improved for Quebec Cegep and university students announced the P.Q. on Tuesday.

The Gazette reports that the aid will help around 160 000 post-secondary students.

The agreement calls for an extra $160 a year or $20 a month per student who request it.

Part-time students travelling to their cegep or university will get a break as well. They will get $728 in travel expenses.

In a campaign to make Philadelphia the most LGBT-friendly city in the world, mayor Michael Nutter signed legislation to future public restrooms gender neutral.

The move is to accommodate transgender people who feel uncomfortable going into public restrooms assigned to men and women. 

City Councilor Jim Kenney sponsored the bill. 

He spoke to N-B-C News Philadelphia on the difficult and awkward for transgender people to go into male and female restrooms.