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* Featured * Canada Countries Featured • Zone 1 General Society Society (Canada) 

Fractured turbine blades led to emergency landing in Rankin Inlet in 2024

CBC News
Posted: Tuesday, December 2, 2025 at 16:00
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The cause of the blades’ fracture, however, is still unknown according to TSB report Cracks in aircraft turbine blades led

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* Featured * Canada Countries Featured • Zone 2 General Politics Politics (Canada) 

Some Nunavimmiut want more answers from Elections Canada into voting failures in federal election

CBC News
Posted: Tuesday, December 2, 2025 at 15:33
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By Samuel Wat There were no polls open on election day in 2 villages, 7 others closed early Days after

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* Featured * Featured • Zone 3 General Norway Politics Politics (Norway) 

NATO sends more ships to High North “amid increasing operational demands”

Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Tuesday, December 2, 2025 at 14:08
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The Alliance’s Standing Maritime Group 1 (SNMG1) has launched its second deployment in Norwegian arctic waters this year. “The High

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* Featured * Business Business (USA) Featured • Zone 3 General USA 

Alaskan tribes sue B.C. gov’t over mines in far northwest

CBC News
Posted: Tuesday, December 2, 2025 at 11:45
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By Andrew Kurjata, Hanna Petersen  Southeast Alaska Indigenous Transboundary Commission says impacts and rights don’t stop at border A group of

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* Featured * Art (Canada) Art and Culture Canada Culture Featured • Zone 3 General 

Iqaluit Pan-Arctic Vision celebrates diversity, community and coming home to your cat

CBC News
Posted: Tuesday, December 2, 2025 at 10:41
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The music festival wrapped in Iqaluit Saturday After a week of music with messages ranging from fighting for justice to

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

Akaitcho First Nations to form working group to decide new name for Great Slave Lake

CBC News
Posted: Tuesday, December 2, 2025 at 09:19
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By Sarah St-Pierre  First Nations have long wanted to drop the N.W.T. lake’s ‘colonial name’ Akaitcho First Nations in the

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

NATO chief to Arctic Allies: “We’re all frontline states now,” as Iceland’s role grows

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic @arctic_eq
Posted: Monday, December 1, 2025 at 16:35
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As geopolitical powers like Russia and China continue jockeying for influence in the Arctic, NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte used

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* Featured * Environment Featured • Zone 3 Finland General Society (Finland) 

Nearly 700 health and social services jobs at risk in Lapland and South Karelia

Yle News
Posted: Monday, December 1, 2025 at 12:36
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The wellbeing services counties of Lapland and South Karelia have announced sweeping job losses. The Lapland health, social and rescue

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

Living situation for elder in Behchokǫ̀, N.W.T. reflects the community’s housing crisis

Luke Caroll, CBC News
Posted: Monday, December 1, 2025 at 11:40
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There’s a constant hum from the furnace in Celine Whane’s house in Behchokǫ̀, N.W.T., as it runs non-stop to counter the

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* Featured * Canada Environment Environment (Canada) Featured • Zone 2 General 

As the Arctic coastline erodes, a new report says Canada needs to do more to protect it

CBC News
Posted: Monday, December 1, 2025 at 09:07
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By Tori Fitzpatrick  Three territories lack dedicated shoreline management plans, report says A recent report says Canada is not doing

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

Arctic Council launches latest “Plastic in a Bottle” capsules from Greenland

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic @arctic_eq
Posted: Friday, November 28, 2025 at 16:43 — Last Updated: Friday, November 28, 2025 at 16:45
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The Arctic Council working group focused on the polar marine environment  launched two new GPS-equipped “Plastic in a Bottle” capsules

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* Featured * * Newsroom Picks * Canada Featured • Zone 3 General Newsroom Picks • zone 2 Politics Politics (Russia) Russia Society (Canada) 

Russia withdraws from Euro-Arctic rescue cooperation

Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Friday, November 28, 2025 at 14:27
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The Foreign Ministry in Moscow announced on November 26 that it formally had terminated the agreement with Norway, Finland and

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

Elections Canada says protocol wasn’t followed in Nunavik during federal election

The Canadian Press
Posted: Friday, November 28, 2025 at 13:17 — Last Updated: Friday, November 28, 2025 at 13:18
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By Alessia Passafiume Lack of planning and oversight caused some polls to close early Elections Canada says voting services in

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

100-day countdown is on in Whitehorse, host of 2026 Arctic Winter Games

CBC News
Posted: Friday, November 28, 2025 at 10:18
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By Virginie Ann  ‘When hosting events of this size, there’s always that little bit of a scramble’ When biathlon ski

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* Featured * Canada Countries Featured • Zone 1 General Politics Politics (Canada) 

As Ottawa pushes for ‘nation-building’ infrastructure, could N.W.T.’s Mackenzie Valley Highway have a shot?

Sidney Cohen, CBC News
Posted: Friday, November 28, 2025 at 09:06
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Territory’s MP doubtful as ‘it is a highway in just one jurisdiction’ There are new questions about the future of

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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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