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

U.S. shows strength on the one-year anniversary of Sweden’s accession to NATO

Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 11:52
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While the U.S. was absent from the Paris meeting where 30 army chiefs from across the alliance met on Tuesday,

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

Feds backtrack on characterizing northern military spending as new

Liny Lamberink, CBC News @linylamberink
Posted: Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 10:25
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Department now says it switched from one type of accounting to another Funding characterized by the federal government as a

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

Greenland’s Demokraatit wins parliamentary election amid Trump threat

Thomson Reuters
Posted: Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 09:01
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More than 40,000 people were eligible to cast ballots in Tuesday’s vote Greenland’s pro-business opposition Demokraatit party, which favours a slow

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

Q&A: Lawyer tapped to study Giant Mine legacy comes with no ‘preconceived notions’

CBC News
Posted: Tuesday, March 11, 2025 at 15:58
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Yellowknives Dene First Nation welcomes Murray Rankin’s appointment, hopes for resolution The lawyer and former British Columbia politician recently appointed

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* Featured * Featured • Zone 3 General Iceland News Politics Politics (Iceland) 

Iceland’s FM announces defence review, calls revamped security policy ‘urgent’

Eye on the Arctic
Posted: Tuesday, March 11, 2025 at 14:56 — Last Updated: Tuesday, March 11, 2025 at 16:00
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Iceland’s foreign minister is sounding the alarm on national security, announcing an accelerated review of the country’s defence and security

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

Greenlanders vote in election dominated by Trump’s control pledge

Thomson Reuters
Posted: Tuesday, March 11, 2025 at 12:55
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By Jacob Gronholt-Pedersen and Tom Little Greenland residents voted on Tuesday in an election brought into the international spotlight by

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

No big climate change disruption for this year’s Finnmarksløpet

Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Tuesday, March 11, 2025 at 10:42
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Twenty-three top-trained teams will race out of Alta Friday for Europe’s longest dog-sled trail, 1100 km across the Finnmark plateau.

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

Children, families harmed by on-reserve child welfare system can apply for compensation

CBC News
Posted: Tuesday, March 11, 2025 at 09:01
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By Brett Forester  Claims process in $23.4B First Nations child and family services settlement opens Monday First Nations people harmed

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

Gjoa Haven, Nunavut, opens men’s, women’s shelters for people in need

CBC News
Posted: Monday, March 10, 2025 at 16:01
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By Heidi Atter  The Kitikmeot Friendship Society will operate the shelters and train Inuit to help Inuit People without a

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

$1M CanNor investment looks to boost First Nations-led economy, tourism projects

Eye on the Arctic
Posted: Monday, March 10, 2025 at 14:57
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Canada’s Northern Economic Development Agency is investing $1 million into three First Nation-led projects in Yukon, aimed at boosting the

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

Why Greenland is gaining strategic importance amid rising tensions: An Explainer

The Canadian Press
Posted: Monday, March 10, 2025 at 13:51 — Last Updated: Monday, March 10, 2025 at 13:55
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When U.S. President Donald Trump first suggested buying Greenland in 2019, people thought it was just a joke. No one

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

By 2031, the population of the Murmansk region may decrease by 45 thousand

The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Monday, March 10, 2025 at 11:14 — Last Updated: Monday, March 10, 2025 at 11:16
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By Denis Zagore According to data published by Murmanskstat, last year the region’s population decreased by 5.5 thousand people. The population

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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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