Canada invests $5.1M on Arctic mine access road, aerial surveys
The government of Canada and the government of the Northwest Territories announced on Monday they plan to spend nearly $3.4
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Northwestel wants to improve broadband to small communities in northwestern Canada
Northwestel is promising better phone service and faster internet for communities along the north Alaska Highway, in northwestern Canada, as
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Canada’s northern territories among world’s most attractive mining regions for investors, survey says
Canada’s northern territories are among the most attractive jurisdictions in the world to mining companies, according to the latest annual
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Report saying airline merger would jack up prices in Arctic Canada ‘ignorant’ of northern realities, say Inuit orgs
The Inuit organizations behind two of the major airline companies serving the Canadian Arctic lambasted a report from Canada’s Competition
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Canada’s Competition Bureau says Arctic airline merger could bring higher prices, fewer flights
The Competition Bureau says if two Arctic airlines — Canadian North and First Air — merge, it’s likely that prices
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Tourism agency for Canada’s Northwest Territories says more work coming for local photographers
Photographers in the Northwest Territories are hopeful the territory’s tourism agency will do more business with northern freelancers this year.
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Rare earth elements project in Northern Canada gets $5M boost
The Nechalacho rare earth elements project near Lutselk’e, N.W.T., has a vote of confidence from an Australian investment group. Cheetah
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Canadian, Northwest Territories govs team up to sell tungsten mine and deposit
The federal and Northwest Territories governments are working together to sell the Cantung mine and Mactung deposit, located along the
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Three-year wait for satellite station licences in Arctic Canada could soon be over
Two foreign satellite operators may soon receive an interim licence to operate the receivers they built in Inuvik, Northwest Territories
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Canada Goose unveils parkas created by Inuit designers
Inuit designers across Canada will have their traditional parkas displayed around the world. The designers come from nine communities in
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Northern Canada: Northwest Territories gov, mining company sign agreement on benefits of proposed mine
A proposed mine in the Northwest Territories (Canada’s central Arctic) is closer to reality after a socio-economic agreement was signed
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Dozens of northern leaders attending mining conference on Canada’s West Coast
Dozens of leaders from across the North are in Vancouver, British Columbia this week for one of the country’s largest
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Employment rate drops in 2018 in Nunavut, east-Arctic Canada
Nunavut’s employment rate dropped from 55 per cent in 2017 to 54 per cent in 2018, according to Statistics Canada’s
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Canada: chamber of mines says mining industry in Northwest Territories ‘will die’ without investment
The City of Yellowknife, in Canada’s Northwest Territories (N.W.T.), was given a grim update on the state of the territory’s
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Boom times ahead in two of Canada’s northern territories, report says
Good times are in store for Yukon (west Arctic) and Nunavut (east Arctic) in the coming years, according to a
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