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Thousands of containers of contaminated soil and other waste sit at an old Distant Early Warning System site at Cape Dyer, Nunavut, awaiting transport south in July, 2011. DEW line sites are some of the 142 contaminated sites that required clean up across Canada according to the most recent data. (Dave Eagles/DND/Canadian Press)A round-up of stories that made headlines across the North this week.

Canada

Dozens of contaminated sites need to be cleaned up in Canada and among the biggest problems, abandoned mines in the country’s North.

Finland

A controversial decision will allow a gold mine in west Finland to discharge its waste water.

Norway

Sweden’s Accident Investigation Authority releases a report on the Norwegian plane crash in Sweden’s Arctic earlier this year. 

Russia

Vladimir Putin was sworn in as president this week and there’s already indications the Arctic is among his priorities.

Sweden

News that pharmacies in remote regions could be shut down has many worried in the North.

United States (Alaska)

Health was in the news in Alaska this week, with an announcement that health care in rural Alaska would be provided for veterans. Elsewhere, a wave of suicides in remote Alaskan villages has many wondering how to improve mental health services for residents in these communities.

Write to Eilís Quinn at eilis.quinn(at)cbc.ca

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic

Eilís Quinn is an award-winning journalist and manages Radio Canada International’s Eye on the Arctic news cooperation project. Eilís has reported from the Arctic regions of all eight circumpolar countries and has produced numerous documentary and multimedia series about climate change and the issues facing Indigenous peoples in the North.

Her investigative report "Death in the Arctic: A community grieves, a father fights for change," about the murder of Robert Adams, a 19-year-old Inuk man from Arctic Quebec, received the silver medal for “Best Investigative Article or Series” at the 2019 Canadian Online Publishing Awards. The project also received an honourable mention for excellence in reporting on trauma at the 2019 Dart Awards in New York City.

Her report “The Arctic Railway: Building a future or destroying a culture?” on the impact a multi-billion euro infrastructure project would have on Indigenous communities in Arctic Europe was a finalist at the 2019 Canadian Association of Journalists award in the online investigative category.

Her multimedia project on the health challenges in the Canadian Arctic, "Bridging the Divide," was a finalist at the 2012 Webby Awards.

Her work on climate change in the Arctic has also been featured on the TV science program Découverte, as well as Le Téléjournal, the French-Language CBC’s flagship news cast.

Eilís has worked for media organizations in Canada and the United States and as a TV host for the Discovery/BBC Worldwide series "Best in China."

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