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* Featured * Canada Countries Featured • Zone 1 General News Society Society (Canada) 

Cambridge Bay’s population has outgrown its sewer, water services

Natalie Pressman, CBC News @natpressman
Posted: Thursday, September 25, 2025 at 11:38
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Aopak Bella Angulalik’s home in Cambridge Bay, Nunavut, runs out of water as often as every other day. On weekends the

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* Featured * Denmark/Greenland Featured • Zone 2 General Politics Politics (Denmark/Greenland) 

Denmark’s PM apologizes in person to Greenland women over forced contraception

Thomson Reuters
Posted: Thursday, September 25, 2025 at 10:06
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Denmark’s prime minister apologized in person on Wednesday to women who were victims of a decades-long involuntary birth control campaign,

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

Q+A | National projects among top priorities for ITK president in 4th term

CBC News
Posted: Thursday, September 25, 2025 at 09:05
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Inuit Nunangat University, Inuit unity and Inuit involvement in federal nation-building projects are some of the key priorities for Inuit

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* Featured * Blog Featured • Zone 3 General News Norway Politics Politics (Norway) 

Blog—Arctic Security Conference: “We are already at war in the Arctic”

Mia Bennett
Posted: Wednesday, September 24, 2025 at 16:21
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The work of Arctic conferences, as niche as they are, should be to reject rather than reproduce megalomaniacal discourses. At

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* Featured * Environment Environment (Sweden) Featured • Zone 3 General News Sweden 

Eight Swedish glaciers melted away: ‘It’s a very clear sign’

Radio Sweden
Posted: Wednesday, September 24, 2025 at 15:06
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High-resolution satellite images show that eight glaciers in Sweden have melted away between 2023 and late summer 2024. The glaciers

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Shipping traffic went down along the Northern Sea Route this year, after four years of increases. (Vladimir Chistyakov/Associated Press)
* Featured * Business Business (Russia) Featured • Zone 3 General Russia 

Moscow pushing Arctic shipping towards disaster?

Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Wednesday, September 24, 2025 at 11:32
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Russian authorities are green-lighting ships without ice-class on the Northern Sea Route. This month, it could have ended in catastrophe.

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

Yukon’s francophone newspaper L’Aurore Boréale wins 3 national awards

CBC News
Posted: Wednesday, September 24, 2025 at 10:13 — Last Updated: Wednesday, September 24, 2025 at 10:28
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By Isabella Calissi Periodical named ‘Newspaper of the Year’ at 2025 Prix d’excellence de la Presse Francophone Yukon’s only francophone newspaper,

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

Iqaluit therapist pushes for Nunavut’s private practitioners to be part of counselling service

CBC News
Posted: Wednesday, September 24, 2025 at 09:01
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By Emma Tranter  All therapists contracted by the government’s service live outside the territory A mental health therapist is calling

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

Salvage vessels arrive to free ship trapped in Arctic Canada…as long as weather cooperates

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic @arctic_eq
Posted: Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 16:11
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After more than two weeks under watch from the Canadian Coast Guard, a  Dutch-flagged cargo ship stranded in the Northwest

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

German canoeist surprised to learn he was missing in the N.W.T.

CBC News
Posted: Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 11:07
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By Tamara Merritt  Inuvik RCMP declared Carsten Iwers missing, but he’d been in Yellowknife for days Carsten Iwers says he

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

Yukon’s Coffee Gold mine project changing hands to Canadian company

CBC News
Posted: Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 10:04
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By Gabrielle Plonka  Newmont Corporation selling Coffee Gold project as part of ‘non-core asset’ divestment Newmont Corporation, an American mining

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* Featured * Featured • Zone 3 General Norway Politics Politics (Norway) 

Russian aircraft violated Norwegian airspace Apr-Aug: PM Støre

Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 09:08
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In the period between April and August this year, Russian planes on three occasions violated the airspace over Eastern Finnmark,

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Inside an empty legislative assembly room.
* Featured * Canada Featured • Zone 3 Politics (Canada) 

Nunavut’s territorial election set for Oct. 27, campaign begins Monday

CBC News
Posted: Monday, September 22, 2025 at 13:27
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Nunavut’s territorial election campaign officially began on Monday with voting day set for Oct. 27. There are 22 seats in the

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* Featured * Featured • Zone 3 Finland General Politics Politics (Finland) 

Finnish Air Force hosts large-scale training exercise, including in North

Yle News
Posted: Monday, September 22, 2025 at 11:51
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This week’s Protective Fence 25 drill will involve a total of around 50 aircraft and 1,200 personnel, including members of

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

Ship noise from possible Churchill port expansion could drive belugas away, experts fear

CBC News
Posted: Monday, September 22, 2025 at 10:49
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By Justin Fiacconi  Displacement would be problem for ecotourism economy, Indigenous communities that depend on whales for food Proposals to

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The Parliament of Canada is the federal legislature of Canada, seated at Parliament Hill in Ottawa, and is composed of three parts: the Monarch, the Senate, and the House of Commons. Photo: La Presse canadienne / Adrian Wyld

Inuit push for land protection with focus on social economy

In Taloyoak, Nunavut, the northernmost hamlet on mainland Canada, Inuit are working to conserve their territory and set up a community-driven, land-based economy. Photo : Eilís Quinn

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