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

Q&A: Lawyer tapped to study Giant Mine legacy comes with no ‘preconceived notions’

CBC News
Posted: Tuesday, March 11, 2025 at 15:58
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Yellowknives Dene First Nation welcomes Murray Rankin’s appointment, hopes for resolution The lawyer and former British Columbia politician recently appointed

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* Featured * Featured • Zone 3 General Iceland News Politics Politics (Iceland) 

Iceland’s FM announces defence review, calls revamped security policy ‘urgent’

Eye on the Arctic
Posted: Tuesday, March 11, 2025 at 14:56 — Last Updated: Tuesday, March 11, 2025 at 16:00
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Iceland’s foreign minister is sounding the alarm on national security, announcing an accelerated review of the country’s defence and security

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* Featured * Denmark/Greenland Featured • Zone 3 General News Politics Politics (Denmark/Greenland) 

Greenlanders vote in election dominated by Trump’s control pledge

Thomson Reuters
Posted: Tuesday, March 11, 2025 at 12:55
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By Jacob Gronholt-Pedersen and Tom Little Greenland residents voted on Tuesday in an election brought into the international spotlight by

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* Featured * Featured • Zone 2 General Norway Society Society (Norway) 

No big climate change disruption for this year’s Finnmarksløpet

Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Tuesday, March 11, 2025 at 10:42
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Twenty-three top-trained teams will race out of Alta Friday for Europe’s longest dog-sled trail, 1100 km across the Finnmark plateau.

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

Children, families harmed by on-reserve child welfare system can apply for compensation

CBC News
Posted: Tuesday, March 11, 2025 at 09:01
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By Brett Forester  Claims process in $23.4B First Nations child and family services settlement opens Monday First Nations people harmed

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

Gjoa Haven, Nunavut, opens men’s, women’s shelters for people in need

CBC News
Posted: Monday, March 10, 2025 at 16:01
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By Heidi Atter  The Kitikmeot Friendship Society will operate the shelters and train Inuit to help Inuit People without a

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

$1M CanNor investment looks to boost First Nations-led economy, tourism projects

Eye on the Arctic
Posted: Monday, March 10, 2025 at 14:57
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Canada’s Northern Economic Development Agency is investing $1 million into three First Nation-led projects in Yukon, aimed at boosting the

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* Featured * Denmark/Greenland Featured • Zone 3 General News Politics Politics (Denmark/Greenland) 

Why Greenland is gaining strategic importance amid rising tensions: An Explainer

The Canadian Press
Posted: Monday, March 10, 2025 at 13:51 — Last Updated: Monday, March 10, 2025 at 13:55
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When U.S. President Donald Trump first suggested buying Greenland in 2019, people thought it was just a joke. No one

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* Featured * Featured • Zone 2 General Russia Society Society (Russia) 

By 2031, the population of the Murmansk region may decrease by 45 thousand

The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Monday, March 10, 2025 at 11:14 — Last Updated: Monday, March 10, 2025 at 11:16
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By Denis Zagore According to data published by Murmanskstat, last year the region’s population decreased by 5.5 thousand people. The population

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* Featured * Countries Denmark/Greenland Featured • Zone 3 General News Politics Politics (Denmark/Greenland) 

Trump’s renewed interest in Greenland lacks respect, says prime minister

Thomson Reuters
Posted: Monday, March 10, 2025 at 10:21 — Last Updated: Monday, March 10, 2025 at 10:23
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U.S. President Donald Trump has not treated Greenlanders with respect since expressing his renewed interest in acquiring the vast, mineral-rich

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

Feds commit $1.5B to fulfill Nunavut Land Claim in historic deal

Sarah Krymalowski, CBC News @sarkrymalowski
Posted: Monday, March 10, 2025 at 09:17
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The new Nunavut Agreement Implementation Contract includes $600M for Inuit employment training The federal government has committed to spend $1.5

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Featured • Zone 3 Society Society (Canada) 

Deaths of 3 Dehcho residents have MLAs demanding an investigation

Natalie Pressman, CBC News @natpressman
Posted: Friday, March 7, 2025 at 15:35
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Three people from the Dehcho under the age of 50 have died in circumstances that were highly preventable, according to

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Featured • Zone 3 Society Society (Canada) 

MLAs question Aurora College’s plans to close community learning centres, boost online learning

CBC News
Posted: Friday, March 7, 2025 at 15:01
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By Nadeer Hashmi Aurora College’s plans to close 19 community learning centres across the N.W.T. came under fire on Thursday,

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Society Society (USA) 

Experts and recovery teams hope to reach site of Alaska avalanche that buried 3 skiers

The Associated Press
Posted: Friday, March 7, 2025 at 11:40
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Authorities in Alaska said they would attempt Thursday to reach the site of an avalanche that trapped three skiers, who

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Environment Environment (Canada) 

More toxic water leaks into nearby creek from Yukon’s Eagle mine site

CBC News
Posted: Friday, March 7, 2025 at 10:45
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There’s been another leak of cyanide-contaminated water from the troubled Eagle Gold mine site in central Yukon. In a report

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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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