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* Featured * Canada Countries Environment Environment (Canada) Featured • Zone 2 General 

Most of Western Canada’s glaciers will melt in 80 years, University of Northern B.C. study finds

CBC Radio
Posted: Monday, January 9, 2023 at 14:14 — Last Updated: Monday, January 9, 2023 at 14:18
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A study by international researchers using a supercomputer at the University of Northern British Columbia (UNBC) has found that most

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* Featured * Canada Featured • Zone 3 News Society Society (Canada) 

Break bread, laugh & learn: Celebrating National Indigenous Peoples Day in Canada

CBC Radio
Posted: Tuesday, June 21, 2022 at 10:32
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‘We have an infinite capacity for joy,’ says novelist Eden Robinson June 21 is National Indigenous Peoples Day in Canada. First

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* Featured * Canada Countries Featured • Zone 3 General Politics Politics (Canada) 

Indigenous communities ‘expecting more’ from Pope’s visit, says Canada’s Gov. Gen.

CBC Radio
Posted: Monday, May 30, 2022 at 09:19
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Pope expected to reiterate apology in July, but First Nations groups hope for compensation, action WARNING: This story contains distressing

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* Featured * Denmark/Greenland Featured • Zone 3 General News Society Society (Denmark/Greenland) 

Failed Danish social experiment haunts Greenlandic survivors taken from families 70 years ago

CBC Radio
Posted: Tuesday, February 15, 2022 at 11:51
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WARNING: This story contains distressing details. Helene Thiesen says she froze when it came time to wave goodbye to her

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* Featured * Canada Featured • Zone 3 General News RCI Society Society (Canada) 

To stop violence against Inuit women in Canada, ‘we need to heal generations,’ says survivor

CBC Radio
Posted: Tuesday, February 23, 2021 at 08:58
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A Labrador woman who lost both of her parents in a murder-suicide when she was a child says more must

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Canada RCI Society Society (Canada) 

Holiday storm sees record high winds in Canadian Arctic communities

CBC Radio
Posted: Monday, January 4, 2021 at 10:11
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Communities in the Qikiqtani  region of Canada’s Arctic territory of Nunavut are recovering from a storm over the holiday long

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Canada General RCI Society Society (Canada) 

On the frontlines of health care : A Nunavik, Canada nurse remembers relocation, racism and the rewards of healing

CBC Radio
Posted: Monday, October 19, 2020 at 09:34
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The first time Minnie Akparook saw and heard a plane, she started running. “My sealskin boots fell off. I was

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Canada Environment Environment (Canada) RCI 

The Arctic could soon be ice-free in the summer. Can geoengineering help?

CBC Radio
Posted: Monday, October 5, 2020 at 09:06
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In 2020, Arctic sea ice reached the second lowest level ever recorded It used to be the size of all

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Canada Culture Culture (Canada) RCI 

A film shows how Canadian Indigenous paddled over 500 km in a handmade mooseskin boat

CBC Radio
Posted: Tuesday, August 4, 2020 at 13:13 — Last Updated: Tuesday, August 4, 2020 at 13:15
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Lawrence Nayally had never been in a mooseskin boat himself, but he grew up hearing about his grandfather’s adventures in

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Canada Environment Environment (Canada) RCI 

Peat fires, like those raging in Siberia, will become more common in Canada

CBC Radio
Posted: Monday, August 3, 2020 at 10:22
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Listen to the full episode of What on Earth (27:00) Among the most unsettling images of 2020 — next to the

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Canada Environment Environment (Canada) General 

Taxing carbon in Canada’s diesel-dependent North

CBC Radio
Posted: Monday, October 7, 2019 at 15:32 — Last Updated: Friday, October 11, 2019 at 13:25
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People living off-grid in the Northwest Territories witness climate change every day, but in remote communities where power and heat

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Career criminal was snatching eggs from rare birds around the world – including in Northern Quebec

CBC Radio
Posted: Thursday, January 24, 2019 at 09:48 — Last Updated: Thursday, January 24, 2019 at 09:51
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When U.K. border officials nabbed 56-year-old smuggler Jeffrey Lendrum at Heathrow Airport in June, he was sporting an unseasonably heavy

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General Iceland News Politics Politics (Iceland) 

Iceland’s president admits he went ‘too far’ with threat to ban pineapple pizza

CBC Radio
Posted: Thursday, November 15, 2018 at 16:03
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Nearly two years after the president of Iceland drew Canada’s ire with his disparaging comments about pineapple pizza, Gudni Johannesson

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‘We aren’t bad people,’ says family living in tent in front of legislature in Arctic Canada

CBC Radio
Posted: Friday, September 28, 2018 at 15:23
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Brian Tagalik and Pitsiulaaq Ashoona say territory’s housing crisis means they can’t afford rent. Brian Tagalik says the hardest part

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