Dene Hand Games: more than just a slight of hand
Forty teams from the Northwest Territories, the Yukon and northern Alberta converged on Behchoko, NWT, on March 16, 17 and
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Author: Levon Sevunts, Radio Canada International
Canadian Rangers
The Canadian Rangers operate in Canada’s remote and isolated regions. In April 2010, Eye on the Arctic producer Levon Sevunts
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Tom Smitheringale: Australian Adventurer
A Canadian search and rescue team plucked Australian adventurer Tom Smitheringale off an ice field in the High Arctic Thursday
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Multimedia project documents Saami past and present
One of the greatest perks of my job is meeting interesting people. Some I’ve met during my northern travels. Others
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Scottish film-maker rattled by encounter with polar bear
If you have ever wondered what if feels like to come face to face with a polar bear, check out
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Will railway to Alaska solve Alberta’s oil exports conundrum?
As the Northern Gateway pipeline proposal to ship Alberta oil to Canada’s West Coast has run into fierce opposition from
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Argentina’s last polar bear dies in a heatwave
Call it the ultimate irony, but there is nothing funny about a polar bear dying of heat exhaustion. Yet that’s
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Diamonds – the darker side of prosperity
SOMBA K’E/YELLOKNIFE, Northwest Territories – While prosperity brought by the diamond industry in the Northwest Territories has lifted thousands of
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Social ills keep many on the sidelines of NWT’s diamond boom
SOMBA K’E/YELLOWKNIFE, Northwest Territories – Chris Aspen’s breath already reeked of alcohol even though it was still early in the
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Canada is a relative newcomer to diamond mining. De Beers, the world’s leading diamond company, started prospecting for diamonds
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Diamonds fuel the Northwest Territories’ economy
SOMBA K’E/YELLOWKNIFE, Northwest Territories – Business is booming at the Kingland Ford dealership in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories. Franky Nitsiza, who
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Dreams made of diamonds
Matevos Harutyunyan has to fly across Canada from Yellowknife, the capital of Northwest Territories, to Montreal to do what he
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Canada’s ice road to diamonds
SOMBA K’E/YELLOWKNIFE – A late March blizzard has finished blowing over much of Canada’s Northwest Territories and Ron Near’s job
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Is it a house? Is it a boat? It’s a boathouse!
I drove on the Great Slave Lake to a strange view: colourful houses, some no bigger than a garden shack,
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Arctic Armenians
Tuesday, March 13 Yellowknife, 62° 27′ 0″ N / 114° 21′ 0″ W, the capital of Canada’s Northwest Territories, is
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