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Profiles: Small Business in Canada’s North

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic @arctic_eq
Posted: Monday, September 10, 2012 at 19:39 — Last Updated: Thursday, February 11, 2016 at 21:12
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In these Q&A’s, Eye on the Arctic travelled to Canada’s Northwest Territories to seek out some of entrepreneurs who’ve braved

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Business Business (Canada) Canada 

The Fruit Man: Bringing fresh fruit and produce to the Arctic

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic @arctic_eq
Posted: Monday, September 10, 2012 at 16:14 — Last Updated: Monday, February 15, 2016 at 19:32
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For many, driving a truck trailer packed with fresh fruits and vegetables along remote Arctic highways and across frozen lakes

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Business Business (Canada) Canada 

Changing environmental perceptions: Community focus sets glass business apart

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic @arctic_eq
Posted: Monday, September 10, 2012 at 15:05 — Last Updated: Monday, February 15, 2016 at 20:00
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When most people drive past piles of discarded bottles they just see yesterday’s garbage. But to Matthew Grogono, those discarded

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Business Business (Canada) Canada 

Re-reading the landscape: The importance of northern Books

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic @arctic_eq
Posted: Monday, September 10, 2012 at 13:43 — Last Updated: Thursday, February 11, 2016 at 21:00
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It’s no secret that independent book sellers across Canada are struggling. Competition from chain stores and internet sales are just

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Business Business (Canada) Canada 

Scientists plan to monitor underwater noise in the Northwest Passage

Alaska Dispatch News
Posted: Friday, September 7, 2012 at 19:30
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Researchers want to track changes that may come with more ship traffic A group of U.S.-based researchers wants to record

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Business Sweden 

Swedish government wants mining investments in Far North

Radio Sweden
Posted: Wednesday, September 5, 2012 at 16:15
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The Swedish government announced Wednesday that it will propose to spend $US 130 million on Sweden’s mining industry annually over

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Business Business (Canada) Canada 

Production suspended at diamond mine in Canada’s eastern Arctic

CBC News
Posted: Wednesday, September 5, 2012 at 13:28
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Owners say world diamond market prices dropped so low they can’t break even Shear Diamonds is suspending production at its

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Business USA 

Alaska sprints to build up Arctic infrastructure as development looms

Alex DeMarban, Alaska Dispatch News
Posted: Monday, August 27, 2012 at 17:49
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With Arctic riches beckoning as the ice cap crumbles, world and local leaders eyeing the risks and rewards of development

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Business Business (Canada) Canada 

Canada – a diamond mining superpower

Levon Sevunts, Radio Canada International
Posted: Monday, August 27, 2012 at 10:18 — Last Updated: Monday, February 15, 2016 at 19:50
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  Canada is a relative newcomer to diamond mining. De Beers, the world’s leading diamond company, started prospecting for diamonds

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Business Business (Canada) Canada 

Diamonds fuel the Northwest Territories’ economy

Levon Sevunts, Radio Canada International
Posted: Monday, August 27, 2012 at 09:15 — Last Updated: Monday, February 15, 2016 at 19:34
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SOMBA K’E/YELLOWKNIFE, Northwest Territories – Business is booming at the Kingland Ford dealership in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories. Franky Nitsiza, who

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Business Business (Canada) Canada 

Dreams made of diamonds

Levon Sevunts, Radio Canada International
Posted: Monday, August 27, 2012 at 06:07 — Last Updated: Monday, February 15, 2016 at 19:50
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Matevos Harutyunyan has to fly across Canada from Yellowknife, the capital of Northwest Territories, to Montreal to do what he

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Business Business (Canada) Canada 

Canada’s ice road to diamonds

Levon Sevunts, Radio Canada International
Posted: Monday, August 27, 2012 at 06:02 — Last Updated: Monday, February 15, 2016 at 19:50
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SOMBA K’E/YELLOWKNIFE – A late March blizzard has finished blowing over much of Canada’s Northwest Territories and Ron Near’s job

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Business Sweden 

Mining town’s relocation in Arctic Sweden to be sooner than thought

Radio Sweden
Posted: Friday, August 24, 2012 at 18:47
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Cracks nearing Kiruna town centre Part of Kiruna town centre, in Sweden’s Arctic, will have to move to another location

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Business Sweden 

German igloo challenges Sweden’s Ice Hotel

Radio Sweden
Posted: Thursday, August 23, 2012 at 15:52
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A German airline is to compete with northern Sweden’s famous Ice Hotel by building a multi-million dollar igloo, writes the

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Business USA 

Oil companies spend big against Alaska coastal initiative

Alaska Dispatch News
Posted: Wednesday, August 22, 2012 at 16:14
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Exxon Mobil Corp., ConocoPhillips and BP have contributed more than $400,000 in the last three weeks to defeat a ballot

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