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Paralysis looms over Russia’s Arctic oil

Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Monday, January 13, 2025 at 12:52
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New US sanctions deal an unprecedented blow to the companies that over the past decade have developed major oil and

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

Uncertainty and anxiety for some Northerners, as Trump returns to power

Cheryl Kawaja, CBC North
Posted: Monday, January 13, 2025 at 09:12
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‘It’s just so unpredictable, you just have to be ready to react,’ says Vuntut Gwitchin chief Pauline Frost, chief of

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

Mountain tourism in northern Sweden hindered by train disruptions

Radio Sweden
Posted: Tuesday, January 7, 2025 at 10:58
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Train disruptions on the Malmbanan, or the “Iron Ore Line” in the mountains of Norrbotten, have led to a devastating

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Featured • Zone 2 Geopolitics Geopolitics (Norway) 

Sanctioned shadow fleet gas carrier zigzags between Norwegian oil platforms

Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Friday, January 3, 2025 at 09:20
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For more than a week, the 236 meter long LNG carrier has been sailing back-and-forth in the North Sea.  On

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Featured • Zone 2 Society Society (Canada) 

‘You can’t miss it’: Elder’s glowing house helps brighten the holidays in Dawson City, Yukon

Chris MacIntyre, CBC News
Posted: Wednesday, December 25, 2024 at 11:24 — Last Updated: Wednesday, December 25, 2024 at 11:26
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The spirit of the season is strong in Dawson City, Yukon — and Jim Bob Titus’s house has a lot

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Featured • Zone 2 Politics Politics (Canada) 

Arctic Bay, Nunavut, expected to receive federal funding in 2025 to build small craft harbour

CBC News
Posted: Tuesday, December 24, 2024 at 10:30
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By Samuel Wat Arctic Bay, Nunavut, is expecting to receive federal money to build a small craft harbour in 2025,

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Featured • Zone 2 Geopolitics Geopolitics (Denmark/Greenland) Newsroom Picks • zone 3 

Trump again calls to buy Greenland after eyeing Canada and the Panama Canal

The Associated Press
Posted: Monday, December 23, 2024 at 11:23 — Last Updated: Monday, December 23, 2024 at 11:24
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First it was Canada, then the Panama Canal. Now, Donald Trump again wants Greenland. The president-elect is renewing unsuccessful calls

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These young northerners are pushing the N.W.T. to do more about climate change

Liny Lamberink, CBC News @linylamberink
Posted: Monday, December 23, 2024 at 09:56 — Last Updated: Monday, December 23, 2024 at 09:58
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Members of the N.W.T. Climate Change Youth Council have spent the last year and a half adding their voices to

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

Foreign tourists on bus involved in fatal crash in Lapland

Yle News
Posted: Friday, December 20, 2024 at 14:54
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Thursday afternoon’s accident claimed two lives. Two people died after a tourist bus and a passenger van collided in Lapland

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

First Nation says it’s using Canada Revenue Agency to out suspected drug dealers

CBC News
Posted: Thursday, December 19, 2024 at 17:02
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By Carla Ulrich  The former chief of Kátł’odeeche First Nation in the N.W.T. says her band has been using Canada’s tax

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N.W.T. gov’t to dissolve health authority’s leadership board

CBC News
Posted: Tuesday, December 10, 2024 at 14:53 — Last Updated: Tuesday, December 10, 2024 at 15:33
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By Jocelyn Shepel Public administrator will be more ‘nimble’ than board, territory says The N.W.T. government has announced it will

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* Featured * Denmark/Greenland Featured • Zone 2 General Politics Society (Denmark/Greenland) 

Anti-whaling activist Watson to remain in Greenland detention

Thomson Reuters
Posted: Monday, December 2, 2024 at 11:31
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Anti-whaling activist Paul Watson will remain in detention in Greenland while Denmark decides whether to extradite him to Japan, police

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Environment Environment (Canada) Featured • Zone 2 Newsroom Picks • zone 3 

Bird that breeds in Tasmania found ‘a long way from home,’ in Canadian Arctic

CBC News
Posted: Friday, November 29, 2024 at 08:39
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Strange birds have been spotted along the coast of the Arctic Ocean this month, including in Paulatuk, N.W.T., and in

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

Sweden asks China to cooperate on Baltic Sea cable investigation

Thomson Reuters
Posted: Thursday, November 28, 2024 at 14:50
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Sweden has sent a formal request to China seeking cooperation to help clarify what happened when two undersea cables were damaged

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Environment (Finland) Environment (USA) Featured • Zone 2 

Snowless Finns suffer ‘eco-grief’

Yle News
Posted: Thursday, November 28, 2024 at 10:00
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The weather in Finland this autumn has been exceptional in many ways. While it was windy and rainy in Turku

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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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