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* Featured * Canada Countries Featured • Zone 3 General Society Society (Canada) 

Inuit women recount experiences past and present of forced sterilization

CBC News
Posted: Monday, March 17, 2025 at 10:22
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Woman from Happy Valley-Goose Bay shocked to realize her case wasn’t an outlier While a national organization seeks to track

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* Featured * Denmark/Greenland Featured • Zone 3 General Geopolitics (Denmark/Greenland) Politics 

Outgoing Greenland PM says ‘Enough is enough’ as Trump tells NATO chief US needs Greenland

Thomson Reuters
Posted: Friday, March 14, 2025 at 17:29 — Last Updated: Friday, March 14, 2025 at 17:32
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President Donald Trump told NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte on Thursday that U.S. control of Greenland is necessary to enhance international

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* Featured * Canada Countries Featured • Zone 3 General News Politics Politics (Canada) 

Lisa Koperqualuk steps down as ICC Canada Leader; Natan Obed named acting head

Eye on the Arctic
Posted: Friday, March 14, 2025 at 17:04
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Lisa Qiluqqi Koperqualuk has resigned as president of Inuit Circumpolar Council Canada, the organization said on Friday.  In a statement,

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* Featured * Featured • Zone 3 General Politics Politics (Russia) Russia 

Russia accuses Norway of militarizing Svalbard Arctic islands

Thomson Reuters
Posted: Friday, March 14, 2025 at 13:58
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Russia accused Norway of militarizing the Svalbard archipelago and said on Friday it had summoned the Norwegian ambassador to Moscow

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* Featured * Canada Countries Environment Environment (Canada) Featured • Zone 3 General 

EPR program recycling services to start this year in the Yukon

CBC News
Posted: Friday, March 14, 2025 at 10:54
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By Tori Fitzpatrick  Extended Producer Responsibility program meant to shift cost of recycling to producers of those materials The Yukon

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* Featured * Canada Countries Environment Environment (Canada) Featured • Zone 3 General News 

Beluga Summit brings together hunters and researchers in Inuvik, N.W.T.

CBC News
Posted: Friday, March 14, 2025 at 09:39
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By Dez Loreen ‘The data that we bring to the table, with traditional knowledge and Western science, is top-notch’ Hunters,

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* Featured * Canada Countries General Society Society (Canada) 

Drugs and handgun seized after luxury vehicle stopped on Sahtu winter road, say RCMP

CBC News
Posted: Thursday, March 13, 2025 at 17:42
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Bust described by RCMP superintendent as a ‘significant disruption’ to the drug trade Two men from Alberta are facing a

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* Featured * Environment Environment (Finland) Featured • Zone 3 Finland General News 

Arctic Finland sees unseasonably mild winter this February

Eye on the Arctic
Posted: Thursday, March 13, 2025 at 17:31
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Finland’s Arctic Lapland region experienced an astonishingly mild winter through the month of  February with the average temperature roughly 7

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* Featured * Denmark/Greenland Featured • Zone 3 General Politics Politics (Denmark/Greenland) 

Greenland’s election winners push back against Trump’s wish to control island

The Associated Press
Posted: Thursday, March 13, 2025 at 13:28
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Greenland’s likely new prime minister on Wednesday rejected U.S. President Donald Trump’s effort to take control of the island, saying

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

2 dead after 4-member hunting party struck by blizzard in Nunavik, say police

CBC News
Posted: Thursday, March 13, 2025 at 11:42
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Quaqtaq mayor says survival of young woman and her daughter is miraculous Two people from Quaqtaq in northern Quebec are

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* Featured * Canada Featured • Zone 3 General News Society Society (Canada) 

$100K cut from N.W.T. family violence shelters restored in territorial budget

Natalie Pressman, CBC News @natpressman
Posted: Thursday, March 13, 2025 at 10:46
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Money for public housing also added to budget that will be voted on Thursday The Government of the Northwest Territories

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

A look at how the Canadian military is training for potential conflicts in the North

CBC News
Posted: Thursday, March 13, 2025 at 09:49
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By Natalia Weichsel A swarm of troops dressed in white and wearing snowshoes glide across a frozen valley. Suddenly they

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

Putin’s dealmaker with Trump calls for joint action in the Arctic

Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 15:52
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“The Arctic is too important for Cold War-style politics,” says Kirill Dmitriev, the influential businessman and government official that plays

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* Featured * Environment Featured • Zone 3 General 

Global sea ice hits all-time February minimum, with Arctic, Antarctic declines 

Eye on the Arctic
Posted: Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 15:33 — Last Updated: Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 15:37
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Sea-ice extent reached a stark new record in February, reaching its all-time minimum extent for the month, with the Arctic

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* Featured * Canada Countries Featured • Zone 3 General News Society Society (Canada) 

Residents anxious about drug-related crime in N.W.T.’s South Slave region

CBC News
Posted: Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 14:06
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By Nadeer Hashmi  ‘Quit hiding these people in our communities … let the police know,’ urges Fort Smith mayor Residents

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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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