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The fin whale taken in the North Atlantic is butchered. (CBC)

Endangered whale meat shipped from Iceland via Halifax

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Posted: Monday, February 24, 2014 at 15:54 — Last Updated: Thursday, August 28, 2014 at 20:50
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Environmentalists are pushing for stricter trade laws in Canada involving at-risk species after the recent shipment of fin whale meat

Reindeer-grazing reserves near the communities of Inuvik and Tuktoyaktuk in the Mackenzie Delta could be open to bidding by companies who want to explore for oil and gas. (CBC)

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Canada eyes Arctic reindeer reserve for oil and gas

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Posted: Thursday, February 20, 2014 at 16:58
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Tracts of land that had been set aside for reindeer grazing in Canada’s North have instead been offered up by

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Wildlife officials in Canada mull quotas for world’s last unregulated polar bear hunt

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Posted: Tuesday, February 11, 2014 at 16:00
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Northern wildlife officials will meet in the Arctic region of the Canadian province of Quebec Wednesday to discuss quotas on

A total of 708,000 square kilometres of boreal forest is now protected by government. Another 460,000 square kilometres are being harvested through sustainable practices (Matt Medler/Associated Press)

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Concerns about Canada’s boreal forest

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Posted: Monday, January 6, 2014 at 10:33
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Canada has made significant strides in protecting the vast boreal forest that stretches across most of its provinces and territories,

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Danish shipper plans more Arctic trips

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Posted: Friday, January 3, 2014 at 12:55
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The company that made the first commercial transit of the Northwest Passage plans to increase its shipments through the legendary

A man takes a photo of Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, and Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, with a tablet in 2013. (AP Photo/RIA-Novosti, Alexander Astafyev, Government Press Service)

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Russia’s Putin rattles military sabre over Canada’s claim to North Pole

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Posted: Tuesday, December 10, 2013 at 18:24
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Russian President Vladimir Putin is pawing the snow over Canada’s claim to the North Pole. A day after Foreign Affairs

Shipping traffic went down along the Northern Sea Route this year, after four years of increases. (Vladimir Chistyakov/Associated Press)

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Canada to file Arctic seafloor claim

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Posted: Monday, December 2, 2013 at 16:12
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Some time this week, Canada is expected to make its case to the world to dramatically expand its boundaries by

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)

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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