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Naujaat hunters want to halt the Baffinland’s railway and port project

CBC News
Posted: Tuesday, April 28, 2026 at 11:56
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Arviq HTO, Naujaat’s hunters and trapper’s organization, wants the federal government to halt the Steensby railway project so it can

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* Featured * Featured • Zone 3 Society Society (Finland) 

Lapland college launches wilderness guide training in English

Yle News
Posted: Monday, April 27, 2026 at 14:49
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Lappia Vocational College is launching the first-ever English-language training course for wilderness and nature guides in Finnish Lapland. The professional

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* Featured * Canada Countries Featured • Zone 3 General Newsroom Picks • zone 3 Society Society (Canada) 

Nunavik joins Indigenous push for banishment of traffickers

CBC News
Posted: Monday, April 27, 2026 at 14:18
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Leaders in Nunavik are exploring the idea of banishment as a way to stop the flow of drugs and alcohol

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

Shadow tanker that broke Cuba fuel blockade loads Arctic crude in Murmansk

Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Monday, April 27, 2026 at 13:44
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Ship tracking data shows that the 250-metre-long tanker on 27 April crossed the Norwegian–Russian maritime boundary and proceeded towards Kola

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A building is seen with flags outside and a sculpture.
Featured • Zone 3 General Society 

Nunavut RCMP now investigating August death as homicide

CBC News
Posted: Friday, April 24, 2026 at 16:02
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Nunavut RCMP now say they’re treating the death of a man in Iqaluit last August as a homicide. Mosesie ‘Levi’

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Aerial view of a white, frozen river winding through a snowy landscape.
* Featured * * Newsroom Picks * Canada Environment (Canada) Featured • Zone 2 Newsroom Picks • zone 2 

N.W.T. gov’t hopes for ‘rebound’ in spring water levels this year on Mackenzie River

CBC News
Posted: Friday, April 24, 2026 at 10:57
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By Yumna Iftikhar Heavy winter snowpack to the south could help bring the Mackenzie River closer to normal this summer

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FSB in Murmansk.
* Featured * * Newsroom Picks * Featured • Zone 3 Geopolitics (Russia) Newsroom Picks • zone 1 Russia 

FSB major general V. Shchemelinin appointed to chief position at Russia’s border

Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Friday, April 24, 2026 at 09:42 — Last Updated: Friday, April 24, 2026 at 10:50
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The senior officer, who has been accused by Ukrainian military intelligence of involvement in criminal activities on European territory, has

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A tent on snow-covered barren land with northern lights dancing in the sky at night.
* Featured * * Newsroom Picks * Canada Featured • Zone 1 Newsroom Picks • zone 3 Politics (Canada) 

Square dances and cell signal dead zones: Rangers confront Canada’s Arctic reality

CBC News
Posted: Thursday, April 23, 2026 at 16:48
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By Murray Brewster It’s safe to say learning to square dance with strangers was not on the list of expectations

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Satwant (Sweets) Kaur Dhillon, Owner of Ricky's Yellowknife stands at the restaurant
* Featured * Canada Featured • Zone 2 Society (Canada) 

Local restaurants pivot to residents as tourism slows

CBC News
Posted: Thursday, April 23, 2026 at 13:02
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Satwant (Sweets) Kaur Dhillon co-launched Yellowknife’s first Ricky’s All Day Grill in 2025. A year later, Dhillon is learning to

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* Featured * Featured • Zone 3 General Politics 

Spike in shipping costs to Nunavut via Churchill, Man., operator says

CBC News
Posted: Thursday, April 23, 2026 at 10:06 — Last Updated: Thursday, April 23, 2026 at 13:04
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By Samuel Wat The Nunavut government’s exclusive maritime carrier is bumping up shipping costs for the upcoming sealift season —

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Two bridges, one under construction, seen from the air.
* Featured * Featured • Zone 2 General Politics 

Yukon government axes engineer on Nisutlin Bay Bridge replacement project

CBC News
Posted: Wednesday, April 22, 2026 at 10:27
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The Yukon government has axed the engineer on the Nisutlin Bay Bridge replacement, with the highways minister saying “different expertise”

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A man in a blue sweater sits for photo. John Amagoalik speaks with CBC Indigenous in Ottawa in April 2026.
* Featured * Canada Featured • Zone 3 Politics (Canada) 

Mounties spied on ‘Father of Nunavut’ in 1970s amid fears of Inuit-Dene alliance

CBC News
Posted: Wednesday, April 22, 2026 at 09:06 — Last Updated: Wednesday, April 22, 2026 at 10:21
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Surveillance had become so familiar to John Amagoalik it was, by the mid-1970s, something of a standing joke. From the

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* Featured * Canada Featured • Zone 3 Geopolitics (Canada) 

Military gives details about ‘generational level of investment’ coming to Yellowknife

CBC News
Posted: Tuesday, April 21, 2026 at 16:09
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By Sarah St-Pierre Canadian military officials were before a Yellowknife city council committee on Monday, presenting some details about their

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

No more daylight saving: Northwest Territories to end seasonal time change

CBC News
Posted: Tuesday, April 21, 2026 at 10:08
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By Emma Tranter The Northwest Territories will no longer change its clocks. N.W.T. Premier R.J. Simpson announced Monday that the

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A woman at a podium. Alberta Minister of Health Adriana LaGrange pictured last February.
* Featured * Countries Featured • Zone 3 Politics (Canada) 

N.W.T. government has few details about Alberta’s proposed health reform

Radio-Canada
Posted: Monday, April 20, 2026 at 15:02
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By Avery Zingel The Northwest Territories government says it’s not yet clear how Alberta’s latest proposed health reforms, if passed,

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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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