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Author: Levon Sevunts, Radio Canada International

Canada Featured General Highlights Politics POLITICS 

Canada’s Inuit set out their priorities for federal Arctic policy roadmap

9 November 20189 November 2018 Levon Sevunts, Radio Canada International 1 Comment Arctic Policy Framework, Canada, Inuit

As the federal government works on developing its new Arctic policy strategy, Canada’s national Inuit organization is calling on Ottawa

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Cyber-2 Featured General Highlights SCIENCE Science USA 

U.S. Coast Guard turns to Canada for help with designing its new heavy icebreaker

22 June 201817 September 2018 Levon Sevunts, Radio Canada International 0 Comments heavy icebreaker, ice tank, National Research Council, Newfoundland and Labrador, St. John's, U.S. Coast Guard

With growing concerns over its apparent “icebreaker gap” with Russia and an urgent need to replace its only operational heavy

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Canada Featured General SOCIETY Society 

Canada’s northern justice system needs victim-focused overhaul, national inquiry told

8 March 20188 March 2018 Levon Sevunts, Radio Canada International 0 Comments National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls, Newfoundand and Labrador

Charlotte Wolfrey’s daughter, Deidre Michelin, was just 15 days shy of her 21st birthday when she was shot and killed

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Canada Featured General SOCIETY Society 

Stop normalizing abuse in Indigenous communities, national inquiry told

7 March 20187 March 2018 Levon Sevunts, Radio Canada International 0 Comments Inuit, Kim Campbell-MacLean, National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls, Newfoundand and Labrador

Indigenous and Inuit communities must do more to stop normalizing sexual and physical abuse in their midst, a Canadian inquiry

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BUSINESS Business Canada Featured Geopolitics POLITICS 

China’s Arctic Road and Belt gambit

3 October 201719 March 2018 Levon Sevunts, Radio Canada International 0 Comments 21st-Century Maritime Silk Road, Arctic, China, One Belt, One Road (OBOR), Silk Road Economic Belt

Strategic concerns over the vulnerability of China’s current trade routes and climate change are pushing Beijing to pay growing attention

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Canada Featured Politics POLITICS SOCIETY Society 

Symbols of Nunavut will be added to Centennial Flame

26 September 2017 Levon Sevunts, Radio Canada International 0 Comments Canada, Centennial Flame, Inuit, Nunavut

Canada’s newest territory will get its place of honour in one of the most photographed landmarks in the national capital

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Featured General Geopolitics POLITICS Politics Russia 

Russian ICBM launches showcase its modernized nuclear deterrent, Canadian expert

22 September 201719 March 2018 Levon Sevunts, Radio Canada International 0 Comments ICBM, intercontinental ballistic missiles, nuclear deterrent, Russia, Yars

While much of the international attention has been focused on growing tensions between North Korea and the United States over

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Canada ENVIRONMENT Environment Featured General SOCIETY Society 

Former Canadian police officer headed to jail for smuggling narwhal tusks to U.S.

20 September 201721 September 2017 Levon Sevunts, Radio Canada International 0 Comments justice

A retired Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) officer was sentenced Wednesday to 62 months in prison in Maine for smuggling

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Canada Featured General Politics POLITICS 

Canada’s foreign affairs minister looks to thaw relations with Russia at Arctic summit

31 March 201731 March 2017 Levon Sevunts, Radio Canada International 0 Comments

Canada’s Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland says she is ready to meet her Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov at the upcoming

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Canada Featured General Politics POLITICS 

Yukon MP defends Liberal budget

30 March 2017 Levon Sevunts, Radio Canada International 0 Comments Arctic, Budget 2017, Canada, Canadian North

The new budget presented last week by Finance Minister Bill Morneau is another milestone in the development of Canada’s northern

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Featured General POLITICS Politics Russia 

International Arctic Forum kicks off in Arkhangelsk

29 March 2017 Levon Sevunts, Radio Canada International 0 Comments Arctic, Arkhangelsk, International Arctic Forum, Russia

Hundreds of Arctic experts, researchers, policy makers and politicians attended Wednesday the opening of a major Arctic international forum in

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Canada Featured General Politics POLITICS 

Canada sends low-key delegation to Arctic forum in Russia

28 March 201719 March 2018 Levon Sevunts, Radio Canada International 0 Comments Arctic Forum, Arkhangelsk, Canada, Russia

Canada is sending a relatively low-key delegation to an Arctic conference in northern Russia that will be hosted by President

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BUSINESS Business Canada Featured General SOCIETY Society 

Nunavut gears up for increase in Arctic tourism

28 March 201728 March 2017 Levon Sevunts, Radio Canada International 0 Comments Arctic, Canada, cruise ships, Nunavut, tourism

Canada’s northern territory of Nunavut is gearing up to receive a growing number of tourists drawn to visit the remote

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ENVIRONMENT Featured General SCIENCE 

Will Arctic sea ice shrink to new record low this summer?

23 March 201719 March 2018 Levon Sevunts, Radio Canada International 0 Comments Arctic sea ice, climate change, global warming, sea ice extent

Now that Arctic sea ice has begun its annual melt after reaching a record-low winter maximum extent earlier this month,

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ENVIRONMENT Featured General SCIENCE 

World enters ‘uncharted territory’ with record-breaking climate change: UN report

21 March 201721 March 2017 Levon Sevunts, Radio Canada International 0 Comments Arctic, climate change, global warming, State of Global Climate, World Meteorological Organization

The world enters into ‘truly uncharted territory’ in 2017 with the planet continuing to experience record-breaking global temperature, shrinking sea

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