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* Featured * Denmark/Greenland Featured • Zone 1 General News Society Society (Denmark/Greenland) 

Blog: Despite housing shortages, Greenland razes colonial apartment blocks

Mia Bennett
Posted: Friday, June 13, 2025 at 16:37
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Denmark built dystopian skyscrapers in the Arctic. The Government of Greenland is tearing them down. Colorful houses. Monumental icebergs. Sturdy

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

Kativik Regional Government requests audit of Nunavik police

CBC News
Posted: Monday, June 2, 2025 at 13:51
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By Samuel Wat  KRG passed the resolution on Thursday, as the police service gets a fivefold funding boost The Kativik

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* Featured * Business Business (Canada) Canada Countries Featured • Zone 1 General News 

Dawson City business community fears impact of continued placer mining licence delays

Chris MacIntyre, CBC News
Posted: Thursday, May 29, 2025 at 11:09
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‘This is not just a placer mining industry issue. We have a lot of industries that rely on the placer

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

Calgary Police to investigate death of man in Pond Inlet, Nunavut

CBC News
Posted: Thursday, May 15, 2025 at 11:39
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By Emma Tranter  Police haven’t said how man died Another police force will investigate the Nunavut RCMP after a man

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

Analysis: Will Carney win bring new investment, security to North, or more of the same?

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic @arctic_eq
Posted: Tuesday, April 29, 2025 at 14:26
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As the Liberal Party prepares for its fourth consecutive term, and its first under Prime Minister Mark Carney, the Arctic

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

Booths closed early — or didn’t open at all — in some Nunavik villages

CBC News
Posted: Tuesday, April 29, 2025 at 08:09
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By Samuel Wat  Elections Canada cites weather and difficulty recruiting local teams as the source of the challenges Elia Lauzon

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

Poilievre stresses Arctic defence plans as northern issues surface in election debate

Eye on the Arctic
Posted: Thursday, April 17, 2025 at 12:14 — Last Updated: Friday, April 18, 2025 at 01:20
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English-language debate:  Simultaneous Inuktut translation [South Baffin dialect]: Poilievre stresses Arctic defence plans as northern issues surface in election debate

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

Nunavut Quest competitors set off from Pond Inlet

CBC News
Posted: Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 15:56
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Dog sled journey from Pond Inlet to Igloolik is expected to take one week Eight mushers started the Nunavut Quest

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

Nunavut MLAs worry agency nurse compensation may discourage full-time employment

The Canadian Press
Posted: Tuesday, April 8, 2025 at 14:47
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As Southern employment agencies continue to provide temporary nurses for the Nunavut health care system, several Nunavut MLAs are worried

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* Featured * * Newsroom Picks * Denmark/Greenland Featured • Zone 1 General Newsroom Picks • zone 1 Politics Politics (Denmark/Greenland) 

Danish leader tells the US ‘you cannot annex another country’ as she visits Greenland

The Associated Press
Posted: Friday, April 4, 2025 at 11:27
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Denmark’s prime minister has told the U.S. during a visit to Greenland that “you cannot annex another country,” even with

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

Reinstate federal minister for women, gender equality and youth, say northern organizations

Avery Zingel, CBC News
Posted: Friday, March 28, 2025 at 11:39 — Last Updated: Friday, March 28, 2025 at 11:46
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Women’s organizations ‘shocked’ that responsibilities now part of culture minister’s portfolio Northern women’s organizations are calling on the prime minister

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Seam of frozen melt water in an iceberg in Greenland. (iStock)
* Featured * Environment Environment (Norway) Featured • Zone 1 General Norway 

Mid-winter Arctic sea ice reaches record-low

The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Tuesday, March 25, 2025 at 13:50
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By Elizaveta Vereykina “In February, the monthly Arctic sea ice extent reached a record low for the time of year for

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* Featured * Denmark/Greenland Featured • Zone 1 General Politics Politics (Denmark/Greenland) 

Trump doubles down on Greenland claims as territory leaders slam US delegation visit

Thomson Reuters
Posted: Monday, March 24, 2025 at 15:34
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By Andrea Shalal, Jacob Gronholt-Pedersen and Steve Holland President Donald Trump on Monday doubled down on his suggestion that the

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

Pehdzéh Kı̨ seeks confidentiality for traditional knowledge on proposed Mackenzie Valley Highway

Avery Zingel, CBC News
Posted: Friday, March 21, 2025 at 12:32
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Release of information could cause ‘irremediable harm,’ says chief Pehdzéh Kı̨ First Nation (PKFN) is asking the Mackenzie Valley Environmental

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Environment Environment (Canada) Featured • Zone 1 

Storage pond leak at Yukon’s Eagle Gold mine contaminating nearby creek

CBC News
Posted: Wednesday, February 19, 2025 at 13:15
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The Yukon government says about 19 million litres of toxic water has escaped a containment pond at Eagle Gold mine

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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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