This week's newsletter looks inside the CBC archives to see how food was processed in the '60s, recalling dot-com dreams and facing the high cost of living on a piece of France in the Atlantic Ocean.

One mother says Family Services has been disrespectful to Inuit clients, and the other hasn't been in contact with her kids since they were taken. Both say their children suffered abuse while in the foster system.

Last week's guilty plea from a former Catholic priest who sexually abused children in Nunavut has prompted one of his earlier victims to speak up. 

The $23.5 million was initially allocated in the federal government's 2021 budget, and was slated to last for three years. An email obtained by CBC News shows that it's leaving a 25 per cent hole in the PPSC's budget in Nunavut alone.

A group of Indigenous entrepreneurs from across the North were in Whitehorse last week, learning about building sustainable businesses and livelihoods with a focus on Indigenous languages.

The number of justices of the peace (JPs) in Nunavut has gone down by 40 per cent since 2016, according to numbers from the territory's justice department.

Eric Dejaeger, 77, pleaded guilty earlier this week to seven counts of sexually abusing children in Igloolik between 1978 and 1982 — some of them as young as four. 

A eyewitness has testified at the murder trial of a Nunavut man in St. John’s. Nathan Kavaga Amarudjuak, 38, was in the room when a fight broke out between Bernard Otuk, 26, and Patrick Sulurayok, 34, on June 22, 2021. 

Eric Dejaeger, 77, entered his guilty pleas in an Iqaluit courtroom Thursday morning before Justice Faiyaz Alibhai. Victims also began to read their impact statements, detailing the abuse they faced as children.

Roger Beaudry, chief economic development officer for Sanirajak, Nunavut, calls it the "biggest infrastructure project since the 1990s" in his community — but construction on the new daycare facility has been hampered by a local housing shortage.

The trial of a Nunavut man accused of second-degree murder has started in St. John's. Patrick Sulurayok, 34, appeared in Supreme Court Tuesday, accused of causing the death of another Nunavut man on June 22, 2021.

A former Catholic priest charged with eight counts of historical sexual assault against children in Nunavut is expected to plead guilty to the charges against him.

Eric Dejaeger faces eight counts of historical sexual assault. The charges stem from what is alleged to have happened while Dejaeger was working as a priest in Igloolik between 1978 and 1982, according to court documents. 

Canada's telecommunications regulator says internet customers will receive a subsidy aimed at making service more affordable in the North. Northwestel customers will also be credited on their bill after prolonged outages.

Researchers are hoping to understand how walruses in the central Canadian Arctic react to shipping noise in the waters around them. 

A ribbon-cutting ceremony in Rankin Inlet, Nunavut, on Tuesday celebrated the completed construction of a new long-term care facility to serve the Kivalliq region.

Virtual Qaggiq has been in the works since 2022, and was born out of a similar game that Indigenous and non-Indigenous researchers made together at the University of Auckland in New Zealand. 

Nunavut is returning to the Scotties Tournament of Hearts after a one-year hiatus. A lack of available players and the closure of Iqaluit's curling rink, which was used as a backup set for the production of a TV show, caused Nunavut to withdraw last year.

A new research paper based on interviews with elders in the N.W.T. says Indigenous traditional knowledge could help make the circumpolar health care system more environmentally sustainable.

Environmental experts are worried the cumulative effects of gas, oil and fuel spills aren't being adequately tracked in parts of the North. Last year, Nunavut and N.W.T. together recorded hundreds of contaminant spills, some of them small and others in the thousands of litres.