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

New Mental Health Fund Launched to Support the Canadian Arctic

Eye on the Arctic
Posted: Friday, May 29, 2026 at 11:41 — Last Updated: Friday, May 29, 2026 at 11:43
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A major new investment has been launched to strengthen community-based mental health services across the Canadian Arctic, honoring the legacy

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A photo of navicula imperfecta taken from a sample near Iqaluit, Nunavut.
* Featured * * Newsroom Picks * Canada Environment (Canada) Featured • Zone 2 Newsroom Picks • zone 1 

Researchers look to Arctic algae to study changing Frobisher Bay

CBC News
Posted: Wednesday, May 27, 2026 at 10:11
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Un texte de Tharsha Ravichakaravarthy Researchers in Iqaluit have completed a multi-year study of sea ice algae and phytoplankton that

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Nunavut Premier John Main
* Featured * Canada Featured • Zone 2 Politics (Canada) 

More money for health, community infrastructure in Nunavut’s $3.7B budget

CBC News
Posted: Tuesday, May 26, 2026 at 10:29 — Last Updated: Tuesday, May 26, 2026 at 11:33
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By Chris Windeyer and Paul Tukker Nunavut Premier and Finance Minister John Main tabled the largest budget in the territory’s

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* Featured * Canada Featured • Zone 2 Society (Canada) 

Cruise ship visitors increasingly going to Pond Inlet, fewer to Iqaluit

The Canadian Press
Posted: Monday, May 25, 2026 at 11:04 — Last Updated: Monday, May 25, 2026 at 11:28
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The number of cruise ship visitors to Pond Inlet has grown exponentially since 2022, while many fewer are coming to

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RCMP officers in downtown Yellowknife, pictured on May 19, 2026.
* Featured * Featured • Zone 2 General Society 

Expect more police presence in downtown Yellowknife this summer: RCMP

CBC News
Posted: Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 10:43
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Un texte de Devon Tredinnick Yellowknife residents can expect to see more police officers patrolling the city’s downtown core this

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Chloe stands with her father, mother and younger brother.
* Featured * Canada Featured • Zone 2 Society (Canada) 

Fort Good Hope mother says medical bureaucracy increased stress

CBC News
Posted: Wednesday, May 20, 2026 at 11:11
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By Yumna Iftikhar Chloe Dixon laughs before saying she likes being in Toronto but misses her home in Fort Good

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An Elections Yukon sign outside the office in downtown Whitehorse on May 15, 2026.
* Featured * Canada Featured • Zone 2 Politics (Canada) 

Watchdog dubs Yukon’s political party finance system worst in Canada

CBC News
Posted: Tuesday, May 19, 2026 at 12:22
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By Dana Hatherly A democracy watchdog dubs the Yukon as the “worst” in the country when it comes to its

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The Greenlandic prime minister speaks in front of an EU flag.
* Featured * Countries Denmark/Greenland Featured • Zone 2 Politics (Denmark/Greenland) 

Greenland’s prime minister tells Trump’s envoy self-determination can’t be negotiated

The Canadian Press
Posted: Monday, May 18, 2026 at 10:48 — Last Updated: Monday, May 18, 2026 at 15:53
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Greenland’s Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen said Monday that he had a respectful and positive meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump

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Featured • Zone 2 Geopolitics Geopolitics (Norway) 

British carrier deploys north for NATO exercise amid increase in Russian overflights

Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Friday, May 15, 2026 at 09:55
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HMS Prince of Wales is carrying helicopters set to play a key role as NATO forces conduct submarine detection training

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Business Business (Canada) Featured • Zone 2 

Eagle gold mine cleanup costs more than $11M a month, receiver says

CBC News
Posted: Thursday, May 14, 2026 at 14:50
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By Gabrielle Plonka Remediation at the Eagle gold mine is projected to cost $76.5 million this spring and summer, according

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Featured • Zone 2 Society Society (Canada) 

Yukon First Nation says it can pump out 250 houses per year — if it gets the timber

CBC News
Posted: Thursday, May 14, 2026 at 10:37
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Living in a log cabin, according to Devin Brodhagen, has long been an “ideal” in the Yukon. But the timber

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* Featured * Canada Environment (Canada) Featured • Zone 2 Newsroom Picks • zone 1 

Plastic Pollution: Ottawa Funds Indigenous Research in the North

Eye on the Arctic
Posted: Wednesday, May 13, 2026 at 14:18
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Minister of Environment Julie Dabrusin has announced a $2.4 million investment to study the impact of plastic pollution on Indigenous

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* Featured * Business (Canada) Canada Featured • Zone 2 Newsroom Picks • zone 2 

Tariffs: $1.5M to Support Yukon Workers

Eye on the Arctic
Posted: Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 09:37 — Last Updated: Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 10:43
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The federal and territorial governments are injecting $1.5 million over three years to help the Yukon workforce adapt to global

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Featured • Zone 2 Society Society (Canada) 

Black-Inuk woman traces history of Black settlers in the North in pursuit of answers to racial divisions today

CBC News
Posted: Friday, May 1, 2026 at 09:29
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By Samuel Wat Jaelyn Jarrett remembers moving from Nain, N.L., to Ontario as an eight-year-old when she started being called

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Aerial view of a white, frozen river winding through a snowy landscape.
* Featured * * Newsroom Picks * Canada Environment (Canada) Featured • Zone 2 Newsroom Picks • zone 2 

N.W.T. gov’t hopes for ‘rebound’ in spring water levels this year on Mackenzie River

CBC News
Posted: Friday, April 24, 2026 at 10:57
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By Yumna Iftikhar Heavy winter snowpack to the south could help bring the Mackenzie River closer to normal this summer

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Wide shot of the Centennial Flame with the Parliament building behind
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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