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Blueberry season in northern Sweden gets early start

Radio Sweden
Posted: Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 10:55
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The blueberry season has started early in several parts of the country — but most of this year’s blueberries are

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

Grays Bay progress good news for Arctic Economic and Security Corridor, N.W.T. mining industry says

CBC News
Posted: Thursday, July 2, 2026 at 13:28
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Some in the N.W.T mining industry consider the two major projects ‘inextricably linked’ As the CEO of a newly-created company

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Ottawa Fast-Tracks Process for Major Infrastructure Projects in the Arctic

Eye on the Arctic
Posted: Thursday, June 25, 2026 at 10:06
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The Government of Canada has announced the launch of the registration process to designate three major infrastructure projects as “projects

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3 stamps dedicated to Indigenous leaders.
* Featured * * Newsroom Picks * Canada Featured • Zone 2 Newsroom Picks • zone 1 Society (Canada) 

The Arctic Honored on New Canada Post Stamps

Eye on the Arctic
Posted: Thursday, June 18, 2026 at 10:50
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Ahead of National Indigenous Peoples Day on June 21, Canada Post has unveiled its fifth annual stamp issue dedicated to

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Baffinland Iron Mines
* Featured * Canada Environment (Canada) Featured • Zone 2 

With much-needed cash secured, the real work begins for Baffinland to stay afloat

CBC News
Posted: Tuesday, June 16, 2026 at 10:35
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Now that Baffinland Iron Mines has secured much-needed cash, the real work begins on keeping its operations in Nunavut afloat. 

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An excavator and a bulldozer
* Featured * Canada Environment (Canada) Featured • Zone 2 News 

Placer miners in the Klondike get back to work as Yukon gov’t tackles licence

CBC News
Posted: Monday, June 15, 2026 at 09:30
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By Chris MacIntyre A backlog of licence and permit renewals has had some placer miners in the Klondike uncertain whether

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The National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa.
* Featured * * Newsroom Picks * Art (Canada) Canada Featured • Zone 2 Newsroom Picks • zone 3 

NGC Unveils the World’s Largest Exhibition of Indigenous Circumpolar Art

Eye on the Arctic
Posted: Thursday, June 11, 2026 at 16:06
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The National Gallery of Canada (NGC) has announced the unveiling of Qillaniq, an exhibition entirely dedicated to contemporary artists from

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Environment Environment (USA) Featured • Zone 2 

Trump administration to auction oil drilling rights in Alaska wildlife refuge

Thomson Reuters
Posted: Friday, June 5, 2026 at 13:33 — Last Updated: Friday, June 5, 2026 at 15:46
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The Trump administration on Friday will hold a sale of oil and gas leases on 689,000 acres (278,828 hectares) in

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Featured • Zone 2 Geopolitics Geopolitics (Norway) Politics Politics (Norway) 

Norwegian citizen detained in Russia

Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Friday, June 5, 2026 at 11:49
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The Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has confirmed that a man from Norway’s border region has been detained by Russian

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Business Business (Russia) Featured • Zone 2 

TotalEnergies eyes exit from outlawed Arctic LNG 2

Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Thursday, June 4, 2026 at 14:33
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The French company’s 10 percent ownership stake in the sanctioned Russian gas project is likely to be acquired by a

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Yellowknife City Council building
* Featured * Canada Featured • Zone 2 Society (Canada) 

Yellowknife mulls bylaw change to expand $1 land sales for affordable housing

CBC News
Posted: Tuesday, June 2, 2026 at 08:34 — Last Updated: Tuesday, June 2, 2026 at 12:36
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By Jessica Davey-Quantick A bylaw change could make it easier to get affordable housing built in Yellowknife. Deputy mayor Rob

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A photo of navicula imperfecta taken from a sample near Iqaluit, Nunavut.
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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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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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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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