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BUSINESS Business Canada Featured • Zone 3 

2019 saw increase in commercial shipping through Northwest Passage

Levon Sevunts, Radio Canada International
Posted: Thursday, December 12, 2019 at 15:06
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2019 marked a busy shipping season in the Canadian Arctic with 27 ships making a full transit through the Northwest

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BUSINESS Business Canada Countries Featured • Zone 3 

Arctic Canada: over 140 businesses left stranded by shutdown of major trucking companies

Richard Gleeson, CBC News
Posted: Friday, December 6, 2019 at 14:12 — Last Updated: Friday, December 6, 2019 at 14:19
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More than 140 businesses have been left in the lurch by the shutdown of two Tlicho-owned trucking companies. For the

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BUSINESS Business Canada Countries Featured Featured • Zone 1 General 

Mineral exploration plummets in northwestern Canada

Dave Croft, CBC News
Posted: Tuesday, November 19, 2019 at 11:29
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There’s concern about the future of mineral exploration in Yukon, a territory in northwestern Canada, after a sharp downturn in

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BUSINESS Business Canada Countries Cyber Cyber-4 Featured Featured • Zone 2 General 

Tourism numbers in Canada’s Northwest Territories up 7 per cent

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic
Posted: Friday, November 8, 2019 at 15:37 — Last Updated: Monday, November 11, 2019 at 15:57
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Visitors to Canada’s Northwest Territories (NWT) numbered 120,000 people from April 2018 to March 2019, a 7 per cent increase

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Non-profit to set up local, community-run internet service provider in Arctic Canada

John Last, CBC News
Posted: Wednesday, November 6, 2019 at 16:55 — Last Updated: Thursday, November 7, 2019 at 08:57
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The days of the internet monopoly in Ulukhaktok, N.W.T., in Arctic Canada, are numbered. A $20,000 investment by a non-profit

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BUSINESS Business Canada Countries Featured Featured • Zone 1 General 

Moody’s downgrades rating on $550M bond owed by Northern Canada mines owner

Alex Brockman, CBC News
Posted: Wednesday, October 23, 2019 at 10:49 — Last Updated: Wednesday, October 23, 2019 at 11:02
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The murky future for two diamond mines in the Northwest Territories has led a major credit ratings agency to doubt

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BUSINESS Business Canada Countries Featured Featured • Zone 3 General 

Inuit association in Canada’s eastern Arctic to levy fees on tourism operators

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic
Posted: Tuesday, October 15, 2019 at 15:04 — Last Updated: Wednesday, October 16, 2019 at 10:20
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The rise of tourism in Canada’s eastern Arctic, particularly from cruise ships, has prompted the regional Inuit association to start

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Northwestel looking to build fibre line under Great Slave Lake in Northern Canada

Gabriela Panza-Beltrandi, CBC News
Posted: Tuesday, October 8, 2019 at 13:43
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Northwestel Inc. is looking to build a fibre line under Great Slave Lake, following several telecommunication outages that left Yellowknife

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Internet now same speed across Canada’s Nunavut territory

Sara Frizzell, CBC News
Posted: Thursday, September 26, 2019 at 14:23
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Northwestel announced at the Nunavut Trade Show that all 25 of the territory’s communities are now connected with the same

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BUSINESS Business Canada Countries Featured • Zone 2 General 

Canada’s telecom regulator asks Northwestel to detail outages across the North

Gabriela Panza-Beltrandi, CBC News
Posted: Tuesday, September 24, 2019 at 14:23 — Last Updated: Tuesday, September 24, 2019 at 15:36
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Northwestel has been forced to explain some of the outages northern communities have endured over the last year. The Canadian

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BUSINESS Business Canada Countries Featured Featured • Zone 3 General 

Hybrid-powered electric cruise ship navigates Northwest Passage

Kate Kyle, CBC News
Posted: Friday, September 20, 2019 at 15:20 — Last Updated: Friday, September 20, 2019 at 15:21
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A Norwegian company says it has navigated the first hybrid-powered cruise ship through the Northwest Passage using a combination of

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BUSINESS Business Canada Countries General 

New vessel hopes to renew fisheries in Inuit region of Labrador, Atlantic Canada

Jacob Barker, CBC News
Posted: Thursday, September 12, 2019 at 14:22
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A new exploratory fishing vessel is looking to renew an old industry in Nain, in northern Labrador, Atlantic Canada. The

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Company aims to give the Arctic ‘fibre-like’ internet through satellites

Mackenzie Scott, CBC News
Posted: Wednesday, September 11, 2019 at 11:24 — Last Updated: Thursday, September 12, 2019 at 11:18
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A UK-based telecommunications company is planning to launch hundreds of satellites in an effort to provide worldwide broadband internet service,

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BUSINESS Business Canada Countries Featured Featured • Zone 3 General 

Large gold mine in Yukon, northwestern Canada set for first pour

Mike Rudyk, CBC News
Posted: Thursday, September 5, 2019 at 10:51 — Last Updated: Thursday, September 5, 2019 at 12:13
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The Eagle Gold mine property is an industrial behemoth of heavy machines, buildings and workers hidden away in a obscure

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BUSINESS Business Canada Countries Featured Featured • Zone 3 General 

Northern Canada: Telecom outages cost Yellowknife economy $10M, chamber says

Gabriela Panza-Beltrandi, CBC News
Posted: Wednesday, September 4, 2019 at 10:16 — Last Updated: Wednesday, September 4, 2019 at 12:30
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Two telecommunications outages in Yellowknife, Northern Canada over the summer have cost the local economy close to $10 million, estimates

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