Arctic Winter Games 2023 open with a rockin’ outdoor party at –17 C
Black night skies spread above brightly lit arches and crowds of spectators on Sunday night as the teams competing in
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Fort McMurray businesses ramping up for Arctic Winter Games
Games are set to start on Sunday The 2023 Arctic Winter Games are just a few days away and businesses
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Indigenous youth from across Canada attend clean energy conference in Whitehorse
Participants getting close look at Indigenous-led projects Young people from all over the country are in Whitehorse this week to
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Majority of survey respondents vote to end seasonal time change in N.W.T.
87 per cent of 3,545 respondents prefer a permanent time standard The Northwest Territories is considering whether to end seasonal time
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Population growth in Rankin Inlet, Nunavut, prompts call for homeless shelter
Denise Ford left Rankin Inlet because she didn’t have housing A woman who had to move away from Rankin Inlet,
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Ottawa pledges $1.16-million for justice programs by Inuit gov. in Atlantic Canada
Ottawa has pledged $1.16-million through its Indigenous Justice Program to help support programs set up by the Inuit government in
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Mayo residents say Yukon gov’t efforts to address substance use fall short
By Virginie Ann · CBC News Yukon government says it’s handling the opioid crisis, but this small community says otherwise Warning: this
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Day after nurse sit-in in western Nunavik, union denounces employer actions
The day after a sit-in by nurses in the western part of northern Quebec, their union is denouncing the employer
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Canada’s Yukon territory lifts COVID-19 public health emergency declaration
Canada’s Yukon territory lifted its COVID-19 public health emergency declaration on Monday after almost three years. The territory’s health minister
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Affordability one major theme of Yukon’s latest housing report
45 per cent of all units in Carcross are unaffordable, inadequate or overcrowded, report says Affordability is one of the
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Yukon Quest Alaska official hopes to patch things up and bring back cross-border race
Famed 1,600-kilometre race not happening this year after international dispute over rules The new executive director of the Yukon Quest
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Abbott pledges support for Nunatsiavut housing after advocate calls it ‘abominable’
Housing minister says a co-ordinated approach with local government is best Newfoundland and Labrador’s housing minister toured Nunatsiavut this week, getting
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‘Beside myself’: Renters struggle to find affordable housing in the North
By Emily Blake · The Canadian Press Aurora Rose Gellenbeck has been living out of a hotel in Yellowknife for the past
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Nunavut warns of a ‘surge’ of COVID-19 cases in Iqaluit, the Baffin region
At long last, Nunavummiut were able to again gather for Christmas games and feasts during the holidays. But the good
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People seeking fertility treatment in the Yukon call for more government support
When Amélia Koeppel started trying to conceive with her partner, she didn’t predict they’d eventually end up with a $30,000
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