Canadian military surveys Arctic airstrips, infrastructure in Operation NANOOK exercise
Canada has launched Operation NANOOK-QIMAAVIVUT, an Arctic defence exercise designed to test the military’s ability to move people and equipment
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To help solve the North’s ‘energy deficit’, Ottawa looks at nuclear options
By Devon Tredinnick The Department of National Defence is exploring whether nuclear energy can work in the Arctic The federal
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First Nations-led Auntie’s House to incorporate cultural practices in Whitehorse youth group home
By Alexa MacKie ‘When children do go into care, it’s important that they do stay connected to their community and
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Ottawa awards Telesat $2.3B Arctic military satellite contract
A Canadian telecommunications firm has signed a deal with the federal government worth $2.3 billion to provide high-speed satellite communications
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Arctic Winter Games to return in 2028 after all, this time in Alaska
Officials said earlier that the next games wouldn’t happen until 2029 Just months after organizers of the Arctic Winter Games
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First Nation in Dawson City, Yukon, plans for return of ancient baby mammoth ‘Nun cho ga’
Rare specimen found in 2022 currently being preserved at Canadian Conservation Institute in Ottawa It’s been four years since a
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Meet the men on a mission to bring back the art of Inuit kayak making
Inside a workshop in Iqaluit, Izaac Wilman shows off his decade-old wood furnished qajaq, or Inuit kayak, made in the
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WestJet strike leaves northern travel plans up in the air
By Jessica Davey-Quantick For one Yellowknife family, flight cancellations are more than just a disappointment: they could leave a teen
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Ottawa says construction on Mackenzie Valley Highway can’t start until wildfires are under control
By Devon Tredinnick Prime Minister Mark Carney previously said construction would begin this summer Wildfires in the Northwest Territories are
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Residential school survivors ‘overjoyed’ about return of travel funding for counselling in North
By Sarah St-Pierre Worries linger about what comes when funding runs out at end of fiscal year Joanne Charney said
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Iqaluit housing pressure remains despite fewer working-age residents, says report
There may have been fewer working-age residents in Iqaluit in 2025, but that didn’t ease the city’s housing squeeze, says
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Travelling court cancels fall criminal trials in two Nunavik communities
By Ximena Sampson No criminal trials will be held in Puvirnituq or Inukjuak this fall, Radio-Canada has learned. Four years
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Canadian arctic science network awards $9.3M funding to 13 local reserach projects
A Canadian arctic science network is backing 13 local research projects with $9.3M in funding, it announced on Wednesday. The
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Yukon ‘not greatly affected’ by U.S. duties, Dixon says, as tariffs trump talks with Carney
By Dana Hatherly Premiers met with each other and prime minister last week in Charlottetown, P.E.I. Recent news out of
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Chinook salmon in decline, worsened by Bering Sea heatwave a decade ago: study
By Julia Parrish NOAA says 2016-2020 heatwave in the Bering Sea hit already suffering population hard Yukon River Chinook salmon
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