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* Featured * Canada Countries Featured • Zone 3 News Politics (Canada) Politics (USA) USA 

Top European foreign ministers to meet after White House renews Greenland threats

Thomson Reuters
Posted: Wednesday, January 7, 2026 at 09:59
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French, German and Polish foreign ministers to meet later Wednesday European governments including those in France and Germany are working

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

Carney meets with Danish PM as U.S. ramps up talk of taking over Greenland

The Canadian Press
Posted: Tuesday, January 6, 2026 at 10:16
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Prime Minister Mark Carney says the future of Greenland will be “solely” up to the people of Denmark and Greenland.

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

N.W.T. consistently has Canada’s highest median income — here’s why

Sarah Krymalowski, CBC News @sarkrymalowski
Posted: Monday, January 5, 2026 at 14:23
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Yellowknife economist says that high incomes in N.W.T. come down to high wages Families in the Northwest Territories consistently bring

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Featured • Zone 3 Society Society (Canada) 

Low water levels delay plan to bring cell service to popular hunting area near Fort Providence

Sarah Krymalowski, CBC News @sarkrymalowski
Posted: Friday, January 2, 2026 at 12:00
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Fort Providence, N.W.T., is now home to a portable shelter and mobile hotspot that could provide coverage to traditional land

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Business Business (Canada) Featured • Zone 2 

Here’s where the Yukon’s Mactung mine project stands, one year after joint Canada-U.S. investment

Nancy Thomson, CBC News
Posted: Thursday, January 1, 2026 at 12:00
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A major tungsten deposit near the Yukon-N.W.T. border has been attracting plenty of money and attention in Canada and the

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Featured • Zone 1 Newsroom Picks • zone 3 Society Society (Canada) 

A new Yellowknife program offers smaller, flexible learning option for neurodivergent children

CBC News
Posted: Thursday, January 1, 2026 at 10:56
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By Carla Ulrich A new learning program that opened in Yellowknife this fall offers small group programming for children who

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Featured • Zone 2 Society Society (Canada) 

Here are some of the best sport stories from across the North in 2025

CBC News
Posted: Wednesday, December 31, 2025 at 10:23
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Athletes, coaches, mentors. Recreation is a big deal for many of us fighting dark, cold winters, and this year there

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Culture Culture (Canada) 

‘The space to practise culture’: Handgames beginners in Whitehorse find community and confidence

CBC News
Posted: Wednesday, December 31, 2025 at 08:00
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By Isabel Ruitenbeek  Ashley Russell is a beginner at handgames. She’s played before, in school and with her family, but

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Featured • Zone 1 Society Society (Canada) 

Here are some of Nunavut’s biggest news stories of 2025

CBC News
Posted: Tuesday, December 30, 2025 at 15:28
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Every year, CBC North publishes thousands of stories online — from breaking news, political coverage, crime stories, community features, and

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Featured • Zone 2 Society Society (Canada) 

Here are some of the N.W.T.’s biggest stories of 2025

CBC News
Posted: Tuesday, December 30, 2025 at 12:28 — Last Updated: Tuesday, December 30, 2025 at 13:03
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Every year, CBC North publishes hundreds of stories online — breaking news, investigative reporting, political coverage, community features, longform storytelling,

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Business Business (Canada) Featured • Zone 3 

New company to focus on renewed N.W.T. Courageous Lake gold project

CBC News
Posted: Tuesday, December 30, 2025 at 09:52
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Seabridge Gold says it plans to spin out its large but somewhat sidelined Courageous Lake gold project in the Northwest

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Newsroom Picks • zone 1 Science Science (Canada) 

In 2025, melting sea ice allowed a Canadian icebreaker to enter the world’s last ice area

CBC News
Posted: Monday, December 29, 2025 at 09:35
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By Samuel Wat The waters around the Queen Elizabeth Islands and western Tuvaijuittuq in Canada’s High Arctic have long remained

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Bathurst caribou in snow
* Featured * Canada Environment (Canada) 

New maps shine light on decline of Bathurst Caribou in the N.W.T.

CBC News
Posted: Friday, December 26, 2025 at 15:01
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By Tamara Merritt Two newly published maps show the Bathurst caribou’s changing migration patterns as their population rapidly decreases.   One

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A downtown Whitehorse street is seen at sunrise.
* Featured * Canada Environment (Canada) Featured • Zone 2 

Whitehorse not at imminent risk of blackouts, says ATCO Electric Yukon

CBC News
Posted: Thursday, December 25, 2025 at 12:21
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By Gabrielle Plonka The Yukon’s energy provider says Whitehorse is not at imminent risk of blackouts, but with very cold

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A blue, red and white sign on a sunny day, winter day, outside a building.
* Featured * Canada Featured • Zone 3 Society (Canada) 

Inuvik RCMP charge 2 teenagers after loaded firearm, suspected drugs found in home

CBC News
Posted: Thursday, December 25, 2025 at 08:06
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RCMP in Inuvik, N.W.T., say two youth have been arrested after officers found suspected cocaine and a loaded firearm at

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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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