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National Indigenous News June 15 · National Indigenous Newscasts

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  SPEAKER_00: This is a look at your National Indigenous News.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm Daryl Stranger.
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  SPEAKER_00: A sixty-six million dollar settlement has been reached in a birth alerts class action in British Columbia.
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  SPEAKER_00: Birth alerts involve the exchange of information between a social worker and a hospital.
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  SPEAKER_00: When the social worker feels an expectant mother may put their newborn at risk, they issue a birth alert by informing the hospital of the pregnancy.
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  SPEAKER_00: The hospital in turn will notify the social worker when the baby is born.
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  SPEAKER_00: The lawsuit said that birth alerts shared private information without the person's knowledge and that the practice disproportionately affected indigenous families.
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  SPEAKER_00: The lawsuit in BC was filed in 2021 on behalf of people who were the subject of birth alerts.
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  SPEAKER_00: The province's records reported that 3,000 people were the subject of a birth alert in BC before the practice was ended in 2019.
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  SPEAKER_00: The settlement would provide$2,000 for eligible class members with indigenous class members to receive an additional amount and a collective fund to support affected families and communities.
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  SPEAKER_00: Class Council said many people may not even know a birth alert was sent about them.
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  SPEAKER_00: The alerts were typically sent by child welfare workers from the Ministry of Children and Family Development to hospitals or delegated indigenous agencies about a pregnant person before they gave birth.
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  SPEAKER_00: The settlement still has to be approved by the Supreme Court of British Columbia and a hearing will take place on December 4th.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Nunavut government is recommending a tenfold increase to the Baffin Island caribou harvest after a dramatic recovery in the population.
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  SPEAKER_00: Their proposal is detailed in a submission to the Nunavut Wildlife Management Board for its upcoming meetings beginning June 24th in Kingite.
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  SPEAKER_00: The board has the authority under the Nunavut Agreement to set harvest levels.
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  SPEAKER_00: Right now, the total allowable harvest for the 2026 season is 550 caribou, and that figure is set to increase by 50 each following year.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Environment Department is now suggesting this year's quota go up to 6,000 caribou, roughly 12% of the estimated population, with an annual increase of 125 caribou each year.
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  SPEAKER_00: A December 2025 report based on data from aerial surveys said the new recommendations are a result of strict controls on harvesting over the past decade.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now it's up to the Nunavut Wildlife Management Board to respond to the submission after their meeting, and Environment Minister Brian Kunew said he hopes to have a decision soon after.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Nunavut government submission also made several other recommendations.
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  SPEAKER_00: They include holding annual meetings on caribou management, biennial population surveys, and maintaining a coordinated data collection program.
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  SPEAKER_00: The caribou harvest season generally begins in July.
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  SPEAKER_00: Robert Munch is one of Canada's most celebrated authors.
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  SPEAKER_00: His books have been translated into 22 indigenous languages and dialects according to Scholastic Canada.
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  SPEAKER_00: Soon that will become 26 indigenous languages and dialects.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's because 20 of Munch's books are now being translated into four languages spoken in the Yukon.
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  SPEAKER_00: Those languages are Casca, Clinkett, Southern Tuchon, and Northern Tuchon.
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  SPEAKER_00: The project is being led by the Yukon Native Language Center, who received$294,000 from the Yukon government for the initiative.
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  SPEAKER_00: The transcribed Munch books are currently in the final stage of editing and are set to be delivered to communities in the fall.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's a look at your National Indigenous News.