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Accessing health care can be physically, emotionally and financially challenging for many aboriginal seniors, who may have to travel to urban centres for services that are unavailable in remote or isolated communities, a new report says. (Darryl Dyck/The Canadian Press)

Aging Aboriginal Canadians have harder time staying healthy

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Posted: Thursday, November 28, 2013 at 10:17
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First Nations, Metis and Inuit of advancing years often have poorer health than their non-aboriginal counterparts but don’t receive the

Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver was in London yesterday responding to a European Union fuel directive that paints Alberta's oilsands bitumen as much more highly polluting than conventional sources. Oliver says the oilsands represent 0.1 per cent of global emissions. (from CBC.ca)

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Canada’s climate change stance ‘de-motivating’ say critics

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Posted: Wednesday, November 20, 2013 at 15:37
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Anyone wondering why Canada, with its minuscule global carbon footprint, attracts so much international ire from environmentalists these days should

A three-year-old polar bear named Storm who attacked a man in Churchill in September now lives at Winnipeg's Assiniboine Park Zoo. (Assiniboine Park Conservancy)

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Polar bear captivity rules loosened in Manitoba, Canada

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Posted: Tuesday, November 12, 2013 at 15:20
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Manitoba, Canada is being criticized for making it easier to take polar bears from the icy shores of Hudson Bay

Glen Hodgson from the Conference Board of Canada. (CBC)

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Mining slowdown hurts economy in Canada’s North

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Posted: Thursday, October 17, 2013 at 10:34
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Canada’s three northern territories will have to weather some tough fiscal times over the next year before new mines and

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Greenpeace says Canadians among activists on ship boarded by Russians in Arctic

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Posted: Thursday, September 19, 2013 at 16:35
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Two Canadian activists are among a group of 25 people who were being held at gunpoint aboard a Greenpeace

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Ottawa testing $620K stealth snowmobile for Arctic

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Posted: Sunday, August 18, 2013 at 13:12
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The Canadian military has been secretly test-driving a $620,000 stealth snowmobile in its quest to quietly whisk troops on

A cyclone (top centre) forms over the Canadian Arctic in an Environment Canada NOAA satellite imagery taken at 15:42 Eastern time on Thursday July 25, 2013. (The Canadian Press)

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Scientists watch Arctic cyclone chew up sea ice

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Posted: Friday, July 26, 2013 at 11:17
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Arctic scientists are watching in awe this week as a raging summer cyclone tears up what could become a record amount

View across Reykjavík in Iceland from Öskjuhlíd Hill. (Kirsty Wigglesworth, File / AP)

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Porter Airlines signs deal with Icelandair

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Posted: Wednesday, July 17, 2013 at 15:24 — Last Updated: Thursday, August 28, 2014 at 20:50
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Porter Airlines has signed an interline agreement with Icelandair that gives passengers on its flights access to Europe on a single combined

An iceberg cluster surrounds the Canadian Coast Guard Ship Ann Harvey on Saturday, June 8, 2013 about 60 nautical miles east of Makkovik, Labrador. The coast guard says the largest iceberg cluster it has seen in recent years is drifting south off Labrador near the Strait of Belle Isle. (Canadian Coast Guard / The Canadian Press)

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Greenland iceberg clusters off Atlantic Canada largest in years

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Posted: Friday, June 21, 2013 at 13:33
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ST. JOHN’S, N.L. — The largest iceberg cluster seen in recent years is drifting south off Labrador near the Strait

Premier Darrell Dexter, right, and Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver shake hands at a news conference at the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic in Halifax on Tuesday, June 18, 2013. Oliver announced that Ottawa is raising the liability cap for companies operating in Atlantic Canada's offshore to one billion dollars under new proposed legislation. (Andrew Vaughan / The Canadian Press)

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Canada raising offshore liability cap to $1 billion in Arctic, Atlantic waters

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Posted: Tuesday, June 18, 2013 at 15:50
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HALIFAX — The Canadian government is planning to introduce new rules to make drilling and production companies more accountable in

The plant samples from the glacier were sprinkled onto Petri dishes and stuck in a growth chamber. Eleven of them grew. (Catherine La Farge/University of Alberta)

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Plants revived after 400 years in Arctic ice

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Posted: Wednesday, May 29, 2013 at 09:55
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Plants that managed to re-grow after centuries buried under Arctic glaciers could prove useful for would-be pioneers hoping to explore

Bill Erasmus speaks at the Assembly of First Nations election in July 2012. Erasmus signed a statement on behalf of Canada's Dene Nation calling for an end to Arctic offshore drilling and a pause in northern energy projects unless local aboriginals consent. (The Canadian Press)

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Aboriginal groups call for Arctic energy moratorium

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Posted: Tuesday, May 14, 2013 at 10:38
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Aboriginal groups from every Arctic country have signed a statement that calls for an end to offshore drilling and a

Leona Aglukkaq, minister of the Canadian Northern Economic Development Agency and the MP for Nunavut, pictured touring Frobisher Bay in Iqaluit in 2012, is chair of the Arctic Council and wants it to have more input from business sectors. (Sean Kilpatrick/Canadian Press)

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Arctic Council to take on business focus under Canada

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Posted: Monday, May 13, 2013 at 11:54
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Creating a bigger presence for industry at the world’s premiere international forum on northern issues won’t distract from its work

Iqaluit, Nunavut. (La Presse Canadienne)

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Police wives at remote Canadian posts honoured

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Posted: Monday, April 15, 2013 at 10:54
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The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) are celebrating a time in its history when the “second man” at many remote

Skulls of members of the Franklin expedition were discovered by William Skinner and Paddy Gibson in 1945 at King William Island in Nunavut. While remnants of Franklin's doomed 1845 Arctic expedition have been found, the British explorer's grave has yet to be located. (National Archives of Canada/Canadian Press)

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Study debunks poisoning in Arctic mystery

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Posted: Tuesday, April 9, 2013 at 10:23
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Research suggests lead did not come from tin cans A long-standing Arctic mystery has become even more baffling with research