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Akulivik workers say municipal service problems need action

Radio-Canada
Posted: Friday, March 8, 2024 at 16:28
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By Philippe Granger, Radio-Canada Health and social services workers in the Nunavik village of Akulivik, Nunavik, say an alarming lack

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* Featured * Art (Canada) Canada Countries Featured • Zone 2 

Great Northern Arts Festival returns to Inuvik this summer

CBC News
Posted: Wednesday, March 6, 2024 at 13:27
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Festival is back after a year break, runs July 10 to 15 The Great Northern Arts Festival will return to

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* Featured * * Newsroom Picks * Countries Environment Featured • Zone 2 General News Newsroom Picks • zone 1 

Arctic could be consistently ice-free as early as 2035

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic @arctic_eq
Posted: Tuesday, March 5, 2024 at 15:33
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The Arctic could be consistently ice-free as early as 2035, several years earlier than previously thought, says new research published

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

Blizzard shuts down Iqaluit’s streets, schools

CBC News
Posted: Thursday, February 29, 2024 at 11:37
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Environment Canada issues severe weather warning, winds up to 90km per hour As a blizzard begins to take shape outside,

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

Russian jamming disrupting GPS signals for Norwegian aviation almost daily

Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Tuesday, February 27, 2024 at 09:01
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Pilots flying the Finnmark region see a sharp spike in disturbances of navigation caused by Russian electronic warfare units located

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

Union of Northern Workers ‘gravely concerned’ by N.W.T.’s new fiscal strategy

Luke Caroll, CBC News
Posted: Thursday, February 15, 2024 at 14:22
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The president of the union representing N.W.T. public servants says she is “gravely concerned” by a new fiscal plan the

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* Featured * Featured • Zone 2 Geopolitics Geopolitics (Russia) Politics Politics (Russia) 

New commander of Russia’s ‘Kirkenes Brigade’ says his marines are fighting NATO

Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Thursday, February 15, 2024 at 10:53
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Roman Fyodorov headed the 200th Motorised Rifle Brigade in Pechenga before he recently took over the command of the nearby

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

Hurricane winds lash northern Sweden

Radio Sweden
Posted: Thursday, February 1, 2024 at 11:42
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Powerful winds are lashing northwestern Sweden, and in Stekenjokk in Jämtland, the wind speed is at hurricane level. Trees fallen

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* Featured * Canada Countries Featured • Zone 2 General News Society Society (Canada) 

Meet Kipper, the newest — and only — avalanche dog in Canada’s North

CBC News
Posted: Friday, January 26, 2024 at 09:37
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By Katie Todd · CBC News 2-year-old German Shepherd training to work at Whitehorse’s Mt. Sima ski hill A two-year-old German Shepherd

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* Featured * Business Business (Finland) Featured • Zone 2 Finland General News 

Record-breaking numbers at Lapland airports says Finavia

Eye on the Arctic
Posted: Tuesday, January 16, 2024 at 15:59
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Airports in Finland’s Arctic Lapland saw record-breaking numbers in 2023, Finland’s airport administration reported this week. In total, the operator

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

Yukon RCMP is monitoring potential foreign interference. What does that look like?

Julien Gignac, CBC News @juliengignac
Posted: Tuesday, January 16, 2024 at 10:23
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Suspect investments into mines extracting critical minerals could be of central focus Yukon RCMP say the territory is vulnerable to foreign

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* Featured * Featured • Zone 2 General News Norway Politics Politics (Norway) 

British troops deploy to northern Norway ahead of huge NATO Arctic exercise

Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Monday, January 15, 2024 at 14:34
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Nordic Response 2024 will be NATO’s biggest Arctic exercise in a generation. The bi-annual winter wargame previously known as Cold Response has changed

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* Featured * Environment Featured • Zone 2 General News 

2023 was warmest year on record “by a huge margin,” says WMO

Eye on the Arctic
Posted: Friday, January 12, 2024 at 11:11
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The datasets have been crunched and indicate 2023 was the warmest year on record “by a huge margin,” the World

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* Featured * Featured • Zone 2 Finland General Politics Politics (Finland) 

Eleven Iranians arrested by Finnish border guards after illegal crossing from Russia

Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Friday, January 12, 2024 at 09:01
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The group was assisted by people on the Russian side, the Finnish Border Guard informs. The Iranians, all of them

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* Featured * Featured • Zone 2 General Science Science (USA) USA 

Avian flu detected in polar bear in Alaska

CBC News
Posted: Friday, January 5, 2024 at 11:25
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Wildlife officials in Alaska have confirmed the first known case of a polar bear that died from avian flu —

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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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