Whitehorse hospital opens $33M mental health unit
By Gabrielle Plonka New wing contains 8 private bedrooms, communal kitchen, private outdoor smoking area, and healing room The Whitehorse
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Cruise ship season begins at Svalbard
Crowds of passengers disembarked and outnumbered local residents in the centre of Longyearbyen on Saturday. Not long after the Norwegian Star docked
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N.W.T. gov’t rejects call to declare state of emergency in Norman Wells
Gov’t says rising costs for residents don’t meet territory’s definition of an emergency The Government of the Northwest Territories says
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Iceland ramps up flood, avalanche defence projects after major budget boost
A major budget boost will allow Iceland to ramp up its national flood and avalanche protection initiatives, with the government
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Kativik Regional Government requests audit of Nunavik police
By Samuel Wat KRG passed the resolution on Thursday, as the police service gets a fivefold funding boost The Kativik
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No breakthrough in Ukraine-Russia peace talks after Arctic, Siberia and far east attack
Delegations from Russia and Ukraine met Monday in Turkey for their second round of direct peace talks in just over
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Trump officials to travel to Arctic Alaska to explore state’s resource potential
Three high-level Trump administration officials are touring Alaska this week, to make good on a day one promise from the
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Teaching Tom Cruise about sealskin: Inuit star in new Mission Impossible movie
Lucy Tulugarjuk reflects on her role and the future of Inuit in cinema A couple of years ago, Lucy Tulugarjuk got
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Blog: In a rebordered Barents region, Kirkenes Conference takes place
Never would I have thought I’d use my Russian rudimentary language skills to chat to a Ukrainian refugee displaced to
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Sambaa K’e, N.W.T., on alert for possible evacuation as wildfires burn nearby
3 fires burning south of the community Sambaa K’e, N.W.T., has issued an evacuation alert due to wildfires burning nearby.
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First fully electric garbage truck in Arctic Norway
By Elizaveta Vereykina “It’s more expensive to buy this car, but it’s much cheaper to drive”, recycling point manager says. “I
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Whitehorse hospital making improvements after equipment sterilization problems
Newly released report makes more than a hundred recommendations to improve hospital systems Water and steam quality are to blame
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Banned by EU, welcome in Kirkenes
Only few days after Vitalii Orlov’s company Norebo was put on EU’s sanctions list, two of his trawlers made port
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Fort Simpson ‘warmer than Toronto’ for days as heat wave hits southern N.W.T.
Environment Canada says temperatures expecting to cool in the next few days Much of the South Slave and Dehcho regions
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Arctic glaciers remain at risk even if int’l community reaches climate targets: study
Many glaciers around the world, including in parts of the Arctic, will remain at risk even if the international community
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