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By Talar Stockton, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Yukon News The Canadian government has denied funding for Yukon First Nations Education Directorate\u2019s rural nutrition program. The program \u2014 which was operated in cooperation between the non-profit group and First Nations governments in the territory \u2014 provided meals to students in rural Yukon schools. Earlier this year, the federal government announced it would be changing the way that it reviews applications made to access funding through Jordan\u2019s Principle. The legal principle is named for an Indigenous boy whose cost of care was volleyed back and forth between the Province of Manitoba and the federal government. Jordan River Anderson of Norway House Cree Nation was born in 1999 and had a serious medical condition. Per the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal, after spending the… <\/p>\n

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By Talar Stockton, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Yukon News The Canadian government has denied funding for Yukon First Nations Education Directorate\u2019s rural nutrition program. The program \u2014 which was operated in cooperation between the non-profit group and First Nations governments in the territory \u2014 provided meals to students in rural Yukon schools. Earlier this year, the federal government announced it would be changing the way that it reviews applications made to access funding through Jordan\u2019s Principle. The legal principle is named for an Indigenous boy whose cost of care was volleyed back and forth between the Province of Manitoba and the federal government. Jordan River Anderson of Norway House Cree Nation was born in 1999 and had a serious medical condition. Per the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal, after spending the... <\/p>\n

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