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Disability rates highest for Inuit outside of traditional homeland, lowest in Nunavik, says Statistics Canada study

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic
Posted: Thursday, December 12, 2019 at 17:35
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A new study from Statistics Canada looking at disability rates amongst First Nations, Métis and Inuit has found that disability

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More wolves killed since new government incentives in northwest Canada

Kate Kyle, CBC News
Posted: Thursday, December 12, 2019 at 16:49 — Last Updated: Thursday, December 12, 2019 at 17:35
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Dozens of wolves were killed by hunters under a new incentive program last year. But a biologist with the territorial

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Arctic Canada : airline merger creating ‘dire’ situation for northwest communities, says MLA

Sara Minogue, CBC News
Posted: Thursday, December 12, 2019 at 14:33
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The MLA for the Northwest Territories’ northernmost communities is calling on airlines in the Beaufort Delta to provide more frequent

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Swedish fishmongers and sushi shops still selling critically endangered eel, WWF says

Keith Foster, Radio Sweden
Posted: Tuesday, December 10, 2019 at 15:10
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Although the number of restaurants offering eel has fallen, the WWF says sales in sushi restaurants and stores still present

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A person has died of whooping cough in Canada’s Nunavut territory, health department says

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Posted: Tuesday, December 10, 2019 at 13:38
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A person in Nunavut has died of whooping cough, the territorial government confirmed Monday morning. A spokesperson for Nunavut’s Health Department

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Police response times up to an hour slower in Arctic Finland

Yle News
Posted: Tuesday, December 10, 2019 at 11:21
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A report on police response times from last year published by the National Police Board of Finland shows major regional

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Arctic Council wants to up youth engagement on North

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic
Posted: Wednesday, December 4, 2019 at 15:38
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The importance of upping youth engagement on northern issues was one of the focus topics at the recent Arctic Council,

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Arctic Canada: Nunavut residents get underwater airplane escape training

Jackie McKay, CBC News
Posted: Wednesday, December 4, 2019 at 10:33
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You’re upside down and underwater, strapped into a metal cage by a harness-like seatbelt and the door beside you is

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Canadian Coast Guard completes 2019 Arctic operational season

Levon Sevunts, Radio Canada International
Posted: Tuesday, December 3, 2019 at 16:14 — Last Updated: Tuesday, December 3, 2019 at 16:15
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With Canada’s northernmost regions plunged into the polar night, the Canadian Coast Guard has completed its 2019 Arctic operational season,

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Russia-Norway cross-border traffic up 20 per cent

Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Tuesday, December 3, 2019 at 14:32
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2019 could be the first year since 2015 with an increase in travelers across the Russian, Norwegian land border in

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Major Canadian northern highway project proving difficult to realize

Richard Gleeson, CBC News
Posted: Tuesday, December 3, 2019 at 10:18
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The Northwest Territories government says it is moving ahead with the Mackenzie Valley Highway project, but so far it’s a

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Indigenous leader named Northerner of the Year by Canadian magazine

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic
Posted: Monday, December 2, 2019 at 15:33
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Dana Tizya-Tramm, chief of the Vuntut Gwitchin First Nation in Canada’s northwestern Arctic, has been named Notherner of the Year

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‘This is a crisis’: Canadian Northwest Territories survey shows worsening housing conditions

Anna Desmarais, CBC News
Posted: Friday, November 29, 2019 at 11:51 — Last Updated: Friday, November 29, 2019 at 14:07
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Housing in every community throughout the Northwest Territories is getting worse. The 2019 NWT Housing Survey says 42 per cent

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Number of Chinese visitors eclipses other international travellers to the Northwest Territories, Arctic Canada

Laura Busch, CBC News
Posted: Thursday, November 28, 2019 at 10:22
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The number of tourists visiting the Northwest Territories, Arctic Canada from China has eclipsed all other international visitor numbers, while

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New pediatricians in northwestern Canada to help serve small communities

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Posted: Monday, November 25, 2019 at 16:39
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Yukon, a territory in northwestern Canada, now has three full-time pediatricians based in the territory, and that means they’ll be

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