Global Inuit group voices concern about coronavirus impact on Arctic communities
Dealing with an outbreak of the novel coronavirus in the Arctic would pose serious logistical and public health challenges for remote
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Arctic cruise operators brace for coronavirus uncertainty
While the Arctic cruise ship season is still months away, the expedition cruise industry is closely following the outbreak of
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‘Shocked and disappointed’: Arctic Winter Games cancelled due to coronavirus concerns
The Whitehorse 2020 Arctic Winter Games have been cancelled due to concerns about the novel coronavirus. “There was no scenario under
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Indigenous government secures $2M to conserve traditional lands in northwestern Canada
The government of Canada announced Friday it will inject $2 million into the Canada Nature Fund to help conserve Indigenous
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Stop sign project in northern Canadian town on pause after questions over Gwich’in wording
The group behind newly translated signs in Inuvik, N.W.T., is pausing their project after people began questioning the Gwich’in translation that
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Women in Northern Canada travel farthest to access domestic violence shelters
It was the first and only time Ann Kasook attempted to run away. She still feels shaken when she talks
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Stop signs in northern Canadian town to include Indigenous languages
A new multilingual stop sign project in Inuvik, N.W.T., is hoping to highlight the importance of Indigenous language preservation. The community-based
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‘First time ever’ reconciliation part of action plan for Arctic Winter Games
The 2020 Arctic Winter Games host society wants to mark the 50th anniversary of the event by demonstrating reconciliation as a
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Arctic Winter Games ‘in good shape’ with COVID-19 precautions
Officials with the Arctic Winter Games (AWG) say the risk is low, but they’re taking all necessary precautions to avoid
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Politician sounds alarm on missed medical flight costs in Canada’s eastern Arctic
In 2018-2019 there were 6,000 medical travellers who missed flights Over a quarter of the territorial health budget is going toward
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Police make raids across Montreal as part of investigation into alcohol, drug network selling into Arctic Quebec
More than 80 police officers, from four different police forces in the Canadian province of Quebec, took part in raids
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Prospectors disturbed by surprise staking ban in Yukon, Canada
The Yukon government is defending its decision to ban mineral staking on some First Nations settlement lands — despite prospectors saying
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Alaskan Brent Sass wins 2020 Yukon Quest sled dog race
Sass, who’s won the Yukon Quest twice before, arrived in Whitehorse on Tuesday afternoon He was the lead musher for
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Yukon Quest 2020: last year’s winner first to reach race’s halfway point
Alaska musher Brent Sass is still the one to beat in the Yukon Quest sled dog race. Sass, who won
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Where are the wolves? Satellite collaring planned for wolves on caribou winter range in northwestern Canada
Biologists in the N.W.T. are asking: where are the wolves? That’s the question a proposed wolf collaring project aims to
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